The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300047460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has received fellowships from the United States and Germany, and has held visiting professorships and research positions in Germany and the Netherlands. Po-chia Hsia is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. Elected in 2000 to the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), he is currently researchi
For students of Jewish history, religious culture, and the Middle Ages. Benny Kraut, Univ. In so doing, the ritual murder proceedings assumed a salvic role in a Christian redemptive drama. . Hsia argues persuasively that the ritual murder charge expressed the deepest fears of a population that took the power of both Jewish magic and Christian blood for granted. of CincinnatiCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This meticulously researched and unusually perceptive book is
"Everyone Blames The Jews" according to Top 500 Bound. Nearly every civilization in the world has reported the ritual sacrifice and murder by Jews. Has the entire world been invoIved in a massive conspiracy against jews? Or have fanatical Jews been engaged in a conspiracy against non Jews. Jews killed Jesus Christ. Well, not according to Jews :)
"This volume combines clarity of thinking, elegance of style, and exemplary scholarly attention to detail with intellectual sobriety and human compassion."-Jerome Friedman, Sixteenth Century Journal "Hsia has succeeded in turning established knowledge to illuminatingly new purposes."-G.R. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites. Elton, New York Review of Books "This