The Pinnacle of Hatred provides a comprehensive history of the blood libel allegation
against the Jews. Deftly insinuated and finely honed in medieval Christianity, the charge that …

Jewish ritual murder accusations, in their common apprehension, refer to alleged killing of
Christians by Jews in furtherance of religious rites, or specifically Jewish practice. The blood …

The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel,
and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious …

This issue of Jewish History explores the phenomenon of" blood libel" in eastern Europe in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The accusation that Jews murder Christians …

At the doorstep of the twenty-first century, one would expect that medieval concepts such as
blood libel—the accusation that Jews kill children to use their blood in religious ritual …

This chapter investigates the long-standing myth of Jewish ritual murder from a perspective
that combines the sociology of knowledge and historical contextualization. It proceeds from …

Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews
murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were …

A collection of essays exploring the history of an antisemitic accusation that haunted Jewish
people in Europe and Russia, and how it spread. This innovative reassessment of ritual …

In 2014, the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled
“Jewish Ritual Murder.” A year later, in May 2015, members of the British Movement (BM), a …

Abstract While Mendel Beilis stood trial for murder in Ukraine, the small Jewish population of
Quebec City in Canada pursued legal action against perpetrators of the blood libel. This …