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Accusation Blood Libel in an American Town

Berenson, Edward
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780393249422
Publisert
2019-09-10
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co
Vekt
402 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Berenson, Edward

Biografisk notat

Edward Berenson is a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Europe in the Modern World and The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story. He lives in Tarrytown, New York, with his wife, Catherine Johnson.

Accusation Blood Libel in an American Town

Berenson, Edward
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Berenson, Edward
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
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"Two powerful new books show that anti-Semitism acknowledges no time limits and recognises no borders. Edward Berenson’s The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town is a warning against complacency."

- Jim Crace, Books of the Year 2019 - New Statesman,

"Berenson’s skill in this eye-opening and timely book includes weaving into this local story the larger history of the European blood libel, and how it migrated into the New World — in the 1920s it was rife in Montreal."

- Howard Cooper, Year in Review: Books in 2019 - The Jewish Chronicle,

"He [Berenson] offers a vivid picture of early twentieth-century America, a time of lynch mobs, urban riots and intolerance towards Jews, Catholics, African Americans and immigrants...The Accusation is part of a fascinating new wave of the social history of modern antisemitism."

- Times Literary Supplement,

On 22 September 1928, four-year-old Barbara Griffith strayed into the woods surrounding Massena in New York. Hundreds of people looked for the child but could not find her; then someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews. The mayor and local police believed the rumour and the allegation of ritual murder, known to Jews as “blood libel”, took hold. Rational people in government and Jewish leaders had to intervene to restore calm once Barbara was safely found. At first glance it seems bizarre that so many embraced the accusation but many of Massena’s inhabitants had emigrated recently from Central and Eastern Europe where "blood libel" was common. The Accusation is a shocking and perceptive cross-cultural exploration of American and European responses to anti-Semitism.
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A fascinating investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel and what it reveals about anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.

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"Two powerful new books show that anti-Semitism acknowledges no time limits and recognises no borders. Edward Berenson’s The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town is a warning against complacency."

- Jim Crace, Books of the Year 2019 - New Statesman,

"Berenson’s skill in this eye-opening and timely book includes weaving into this local story the larger history of the European blood libel, and how it migrated into the New World — in the 1920s it was rife in Montreal."

- Howard Cooper, Year in Review: Books in 2019 - The Jewish Chronicle,

"He [Berenson] offers a vivid picture of early twentieth-century America, a time of lynch mobs, urban riots and intolerance towards Jews, Catholics, African Americans and immigrants...The Accusation is part of a fascinating new wave of the social history of modern antisemitism."

- Times Literary Supplement,

On 22 September 1928, four-year-old Barbara Griffith strayed into the woods surrounding Massena in New York. Hundreds of people looked for the child but could not find her; then someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews. The mayor and local police believed the rumour and the allegation of ritual murder, known to Jews as “blood libel”, took hold. Rational people in government and Jewish leaders had to intervene to restore calm once Barbara was safely found. At first glance it seems bizarre that so many embraced the accusation but many of Massena’s inhabitants had emigrated recently from Central and Eastern Europe where "blood libel" was common. The Accusation is a shocking and perceptive cross-cultural exploration of American and European responses to anti-Semitism.
Les mer
A fascinating investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel and what it reveals about anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780393249422
Publisert
2019-09-10
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co
Vekt
402 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Berenson, Edward

Biografisk notat

Edward Berenson is a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Europe in the Modern World and The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story. He lives in Tarrytown, New York, with his wife, Catherine Johnson.

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