TY - BOOK
T1 - Ritual murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and beyond
T2 - New histories of an old accusation
AU - Avrutin, Eugene M.
AU - Dekel-Chen, Jonathan
AU - Weinberg, Robert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by Indiana University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger social and cultural worlds that made these phenomena possible. In doing so, the book helps to explain why blood libel accusations continued to spread in Europe even after modernization seemingly made them obsolete. Drawing on untapped and unconventional historical sources, the collection explores a range of intriguing topics: popular belief and scientific knowledge; the connections between antisemitism, prejudice, and violence; the rule of law versus the power of rumors; the politics of memory; and humanitarian intervention on a global scale.
AB - This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger social and cultural worlds that made these phenomena possible. In doing so, the book helps to explain why blood libel accusations continued to spread in Europe even after modernization seemingly made them obsolete. Drawing on untapped and unconventional historical sources, the collection explores a range of intriguing topics: popular belief and scientific knowledge; the connections between antisemitism, prejudice, and violence; the rule of law versus the power of rumors; the politics of memory; and humanitarian intervention on a global scale.
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AN - SCOPUS:85039941727
SN - 9780253025814
BT - Ritual murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and beyond
PB - Indiana University Press
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