TY  - GEN
T1  - Ritual murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and beyond : new histories of an old accusation
A2  - Avrutin, Eugene M.
A2  - Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L.
A2  - Weinberg, Robert
LA  - English
PP  - Bloomington, Indiana
PB  - Indiana University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn972200793
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.--Publisher's description.
OP  - 292
NO  - "The collection emerged out of a conference at the University of Illinois in October 2014"--Acknowledgments.
CN  - BM585.2 .R58 2017
SN  - 9780253026576
SN  - 0253026571
SN  - 9780253025814
KW  - Blood accusation : Russia : History : Congresses.
KW  - Blood accusation : Europe, Eastern : History : Congresses.
KW  - Jews : Persecutions : Russia : History : Congresses.
KW  - Jews : Persecutions : Europe, Eastern : History : Congresses.
KW  - Antisemitism : Russia : History : Congresses.
KW  - Antisemitism : Europe, Eastern : History : Congresses.
KW  - Russia : Ethnic relations : Congresses.
KW  - Europe, Eastern : Ethnic relations : Congresses.
KW  - Meurtre rituel : Russie : Histoire : Congrès.
KW  - Meurtre rituel : Europe de l'Est : Histoire : Congrès.
KW  - Juifs : Persécutions : Russie : Histoire : Congrès.
KW  - Juifs : Persécutions : Europe de l'Est : Histoire : Congrès.
KW  - Antisémitisme : Russie : Histoire : Congrès.
KW  - Antisémitisme : Europe de l'Est : Histoire : Congrès.
KW  - Europe de l'Est : Relations interethniques : Congrès.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Eastern.
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Blood accusation
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Jews : Persecutions
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Russia
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - History
ER  -