The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany by R. Po-chia Hsia

The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany

R. Po-chia Hsia

256 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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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.  In this engrossing book R....

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