To the Anti-Semite, Jews Aren’t Just One Problem among Many, but the Source of All Problems
Blood libels, old and new.
October 6, 2022
To the Anti-Semite, Jews Aren’t Just One Problem among Many, but the Source of All Problems
Blood libels, old and new.
While it likely had some ancient antecedents, the blood libel—the myth that Jews murder Christian children and consume their blood as part of a Passover ritual—as we know it began in Norwich, England in 1144. That same city was the location of one of several blood-libel-fueled massacres of Jews in 1190, and researchers have recently concluded that a mass grave found in Norwich contained the bones of the victims. Meir Soloveichik reflects on this discovery:
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