The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore by Alan Dundes

The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

Alan Dundes

396 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced

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Alan Dundes, in this casebook of an anti-Semitic legend, demonstrates the power of folklore to influence thought and history.  According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah.  Dundes has gathere...

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