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Author: Magda Teter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674240933
ISBN 10: 0674240936
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 28 January 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A work of wide-ranging research, great insight, and remarkable erudition. This will be the definitive book on blood libel for a long time to come, equally important for readers of Jewish history and Christian history in early modern Europe.--Larry Wolff, author of Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment In this deeply researched and meticulously argued book, Magda Teter offers the first comprehensive study of the origins and afterlife of one of the most virulent and harmful of all anti-Jewish accusations. But Blood Libel is far more than a narrative history. By highlighting the central role of printed books, broadsheets, and images in the dissemination of the libel, Teter illuminates the mechanisms by which hate can be generated, and offers a powerful and sobering lesson for our own time.--Sara Lipton, author of Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Iconography An intellectual tour de force. This authoritative study of the blood libel and its ramifications in early modern Europe will become a classic.--Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, author of Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial
In this deeply researched and meticulously argued book, Magda Teter offers the first comprehensive study of the origins and afterlife of one of the most virulent and harmful of all anti-Jewish accusations. But Blood Libel is far more than a narrative history. By highlighting the central role of printed books, broadsheets, and images in the dissemination of the libel, Teter illuminates the mechanisms by which hate can be generated, and offers a powerful and sobering lesson for our own time.--Sara Lipton, author of Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Iconography A work of wide-ranging research, great insight, and remarkable erudition. This will be the definitive book on blood libel for a long time to come, equally important for readers of Jewish history and Christian history in early modern Europe.--Larry Wolff, author of Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment An intellectual tour de force. This authoritative study of the blood libel and its ramifications in early modern Europe will become a classic.--Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, author of Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial
Author Information
Magda Teter is Professor of History and Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. The author of Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard) and Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland, she has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim and Harry Frank Guggenheim foundations and was Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center, New York Public Library.
