1st Edition
Blood Libels, Hostile Archives Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives
By Magda Teter
Copyright 2025
200 Pages
by
Central European University Press
As a minority group for most of their history, Jews were often marginalized and persecuted. Traces of their lives can be found in the archives of the dominant societies, but only as they intersected with the concerns of those in power. Just as Natalie Zemon Davis, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carlo Ginzburg, and others recovered the voices of the peasants, so, too, scholars of Jewish history and... Read more
List of Figures, Introduction. What Stories Do Archives Tell?, Chapter 1. Jewish Lives in Trent before 1475—Sifting through Johannes Hinderbach’s Archive, Chapter 2. A Window into Polish Jewish Lives in Anti-Jewish Libels in Sandomierz, Chapter 3. On the Uses of Archival Sources—An Interlude, Chapter 4. Anti-Jewish Blood Libels in the Past and the Present, Postscript and Acknowledgments, Glossary, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index
Biography
Magda Teter is Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University.
