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Blood Inscriptions - Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle (Hardcover)
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Blood Inscriptions - Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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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 surprisingly
widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn
to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were
made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government
officials in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia broke with long
established precedent to bring six of these cases forward in
sensational public trials. In Blood Inscriptions Hillel J. Kieval
examines four cases—the prosecutions that took place at
Tiszaeszlár in Hungary (1882-83), Xanten in Germany (1891-92),
Polná in Austrian Bohemia (1899-1900), and Konitz, then Germany,
now in Poland (1900-1902)—to consider the means by which
discredited beliefs came to seem once again plausible. Kieval
explores how educated elites took up the accusations of Jewish
ritual murder and considers the roles played by government
bureaucracies, the journalistic establishment, forensic medicine,
and advanced legal practices in structuring the investigations and
trials. The prosecutors, judges, forensic scientists,
criminologists, and academic scholars of Judaism and other expert
witnesses all worked hard to establish their epistemological
authority as rationalists, Kieval contends. Far from being a
throwback to the Middle Ages, these ritual murder trials were in
all respects a product of post-Enlightenment politics and culture.
Harnessed to and disciplined by the rhetoric of modernity, they
were able to proceed precisely because they were framed by the
idioms of scientific discourse and rationality.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Jewish Culture and Contexts |
Release date: |
February 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Hillel J. Kieval
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-5376-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-8122-5376-0 |
Barcode: |
9780812253764 |
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