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Subject(s)

• Blood accusation—Europe—History [Browse]
• Anti-Jewish propaganda [Browse]
• Christianity and antisemitism [Browse]
• Jews—Persecutions [Browse]
• Christianity and other religions—Judaism [Browse]
• Antisemitism—History [Browse]

Issuing body

• Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim) [Browse]

Series

• Judaica e-books : Magnes Press - Batch 2. [More in this series]
• Magnes Press e-books. [More in this series]

Summary note

"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 Jews murder children and others in order to use their blood for ritual purposes was elaborated further by 19th-century antisemitic jurists, and widely promoted in the anti-Jewish campaigns of the Nazi Party in the Third Reich. A myth that will not die, the charge continues to be made by neo-Nazis and radical Muslim preachers. Drawing on primary sources and documents not previously available in English, Darren O'Brien takes a radical new approach in understanding the historical origins and longevity of the blood libel allegation and its tributaries -- crucifixion murder, plain murder, mutilation murder, and the misnamed "ritual murder."--Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-453) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Julius Streicher, Der Stürmer, and Ritualmord
• Schramm, Himmler and Der jüdische Ritualmord
• The present
• A pre-Ritualmord taxonomy
• The early phase
• Macroscopic and microscopic views of murder
• Murder, mutilation murder, crucifixion murder
• The Jews as crucifiers
• The Holy Sepulchre and the First Crusade
• Chroniclers, medieval monks and the "Christianicides"
• Christian anxiety, blood libel and transubstantiation
• Anti-hereticism and anti-Jewism
• Law, theology, Jews, and heretics
• Classifying a heretic and determining heretical behaviour
• The first allegations of blood libel, 1235-1459
• The true believers
• Dissemination, elision, distortion, renewed fabrication
• Moulding Ritualmord.

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Place name(s)

Israel Jerusalem.

ISBN

9789654934787

OCLC

744559418

RCP

H - S

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