![]() Cohen, Profesor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University Blood libel accusations continue to be made against Jews in the former Soviet Union and in Islamic countries.įrancois Guesnet, Sidney and Elizabeth Corob Reader in Modern Jewish History, University College, London Then, in the middle ages, Christians perversely turned this accusation against the Jewish community, despite several papal condemnations of the libel. The accusation of the ritual use of human blood goes back to ancient Greek and Roman polemics against the Jewish and Christian communities. Panel One: The Blood Libel in Christian and Islamic Anti-Semitism. This conference will be held in the Summer of 2013 and integrated as a requirement in Professor Heschel’s course: History and Culture of the Jews II: The Modern Period (JWST 11/HIST 94.9).Įach Panel will feature one or two short presentations followed by a roundtable discussion and questions from the audience. What duties, if any, does a novelist have to the memory and reputation of the real person upon whom he has based his fictional character? Moreover, Mendel Beilis is the center of a fascinating conflict between historical and literary memory: what is the relationship between the historical Beilis and his fictional representation in Bernard Malamud’s novel, The Fixer? Malamud has been accused of plagiarizing Beilis’ memoir and of dishonoring his memory. Ironically, the blood libel was first used by ancient Greek and Roman pagans to persecute both Jews and Christians. Topics will include the Beilis Affair, a comparison with other anti-Semitic trials (Dreyfus in France, Leo Frank in America, and the Doctors’ Plot in the Soviet Union), the history of the blood libel and its uses in contemporary politics. We plan a 2013 conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the Beilis trial. In 1913, after a dramatic trial that riveted the Jewish people and much of the rest of the world, Beilis was acquitted by an all-Christian jury. He resisted all pressure to implicate himself or other Jews. ![]() Beilis was jailed for over two years, under horrible conditions, while awaiting trial. Beilis, a Jew, was arrested in 1911 by the Czarist secret police in Kiev and accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy to use his blood in baking matzah for Passover. One of the great trials of the twentieth century was the 1913 blood-libel trial of Mendel Beilis in Czarist Russia. ![]() THE “BLOOD LIBEL” IN HISTORY, POLITICS, THEOLOGY, AND LITERATURE ON THE CENTENARY OF THE TRIAL OF MENDEL BEILIS (1913 – 2013)Īrticle of The Blood Libel in History, Politics, Theology, and Literature on the Centenary of the Trial of Mendel Bellisįaculty Directors: Susannah Heschel and James B.
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