The Blood Libel Legend

The Blood Libel Legend A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

Alan Dundes1991
What do we know of the power of legend? How do we put to rest a vicious story, born more than nine centuries ago yet surfacing even today on American television talk shows, that was partly responsible for the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, the basis of persecutions and actual courtroom trials throughout Europe, and exploited in Nazi propaganda?
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