This week, we cover the immensely frightening topic of blood libel. In our longest episode yet, we cover the origins of blood libel, famous cases, a short timeline, and how blood libel may appear in the modern-day. 

Trigger warning for the episode as it will contain discussions of murder, violence, assault, cannibalism, infanticide, torture, mass shootings, and ritualistic killings. I will not go into much detail as you don’t want to hear it and I don’t want to have to say it.

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Sources: 

Ehrman, Albert. “THE ORIGINS OF THE RITUAL MURDER ACCUSATION AND BLOOD LIBEL.” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, vol. 15, no. 4, 1976, pp. 83–90. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23258406.

THE INCIDENT AT INMESTAR: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIFTH CENTURY1 Krystyna Stebnicka (Warsaw University)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-13855238

Goodman, Martin. “Trajan and the Origins of Roman Hostility to the Jews.” Past & Present, no. 182, 2004, pp. 3–29. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3600803. Accessed 22 Aug. 2021.

The Power of a Lie (1144–1300)

From Medieval Tales to the Challenge in Trent

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7921-hugh-of-lincoln

Lachs, Stephen. “The Legend of Little Hugh.” Western Folklore, vol. 19, no. 1, 1960, pp. 61–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1498017. Accessed 23 Aug. 2021.

“Introduction.” Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, by DA TETER, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England, 2020, pp. 1–13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvt1sj9x.6. Accessed 23 Aug. 2021.

https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits/show/sages--scholars--and-healers--/jewish-life/simon-of-trent

Blood accusation and Orthodox liturgy in the Russian Empire before and after the Beilis Case N.Kizenko

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-damascus-blood-libel

“The Damascus Affair.” Moses Montefiore, by ABIGAIL GREEN, Harvard University Press, 2010, pp. 133–157. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0jjk.14. Accessed 24 Aug. 2021.

https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/hamodia/massena_community_feature.pdf

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