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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While the topic was not exactly novel to me, I enjoyed reading this book and I was constantly learning from the significant new information and fresh insights from the authors' analyses." -Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University "This important contribution to our understanding of the evolution of ritual murder charges in Eastern Europe brings together a number of innovative studies on the topic, several of which could become standard reading on the subject." -Glenn Dynner, Sarah Lawrence College
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Ritual Murder Accusations in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond / Eugene M. Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, and Robert Weinberg
1. Imagined Crimes, Real Victims: Hermeneutical Witches and Jews in Early Modern Poland / Michael Ostling
2. The Jewish Blood Libel Legend—A Folkloristic Perspective / Haya Bar-Itzhak
3. Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town / Eugene M. Avrutin
4. The Saratov Affair as a Critical Juncture in Ritual Murder History / Andrew C. Reed
5. The Blood Libel in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania: A Comparison of Two Cases / Darius Staliūnas
6. Yahrzeits, Condolences, and Other Close Encounters: Neighborly Relations and Ritual Murder Trials in Germany and Austria-Hungary / Hillel J. Kieval
7. Human Sacrifice in the Name of a Nation: The Religion of Common Blood / Marina Mogilner
8. The Predatory Jew and Russian Vitalism: Dostoevsky, Rozanov, and Babel / Harriet Murav
9. Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis / Robert Weinberg
10. A Half-Full Cup? Transnational Responses to the Beilis Affair / Jonathan Dekel-Chen
11. Simulating Justice: The Blood Libel Case in Moscow, April 1922 / Gennady Estraikh
12. The Blood Libel and Its Wartime Permutations: Cannibalism in Soviet Lviv / Elissa Bemporad
13. Was the Doctors' Plot a Blood Libel? / Jeffrey Veidlinger
14. The Sandomierz Paintings of Ritual Murder as Lieux de mémoire / Magda Teter
List of Contributors
Index
