- Summary
- "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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- O'Brien, Darren, author.
- Published
- Jerusalem : The Hebrew University Magnes Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, [2011]
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
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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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim), issuing body.
האוניברסיטה העברית. המרכז הבינלאומי לחקר האנטישמיות
- Notes
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Macquarie University, North Ride, N.S.W., 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-453) and index.
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.
