An exploration of late 19th and early 20th century blood libel cases and their historical context.
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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
so 19th and 20th centuries and yes there unfortunately were blood lables and things uh very late obviously the drus affair is known but this is some other ones that aren't as well known but and uh it is appropriate this is being aired on Easter about the blood liels and ritual murder accusations which happened which happened to the Jews unfortunately at this time of year over the centuries uh but there is some gruesome depictions of murder uh and and the like in these that arose from these individual cases and the murder trials that followed from these murders so just a heads up that it's a little Gloria M Goldstein professor emeritus of Jewish history and thought at Washington University and St Louis and uh we'll be discussing his new book titled blood inscriptions science modernity and ritual murder at Europe's turn of the century I'll let you I let Professor K say the French word because I'm going to totally just absolutely butcher the pronunciation of that but anyway and this is about blood liel the blood liel especially uh as the the the late 19th and early 20th centuries uh taking place in Hungary centuries uh taking place in Hungary Germany Austria Czech Republic all that that that area so uh thank you Professor kille for joining me you're very welcome I'm glad to be here so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background well let's see um uh I'm a historian of European Jews from roughly haskala to Shah and um I grew up in the Boston area and uh went did both my
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- 1:33so 19th and 20th centuries and yes there unfortunately were blood lables and things uh very…
- 8:13the the draus affair at least the um the appeals and retrials of Alfred draus uh…
- 14:27world okay so um that was the question that's the big question how does these things…
- 20:15accusation uh which is um uh which is the desecration of the host accusation it's related…
- 26:38that um are these are these blood libels yes okay and so by the time you…
- 32:15investigation and the interrogations of the um uh of the of the examiners the inquisitors that…
- 38:30non-jews of hungarians and ruthenians and slovaks and others uh they were on their rafts you…
- 44:34the body are swelling and it may be that they saw swollen organs and that led…
- 50:50played out there wouldn't be any other uh instances of entire Jewish population's um standing trial…
- 56:32ERS also wrote um a very popular um Memoir of the case and Buddy argued that…
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