单词 | blood libel |
释义 | > as lemmasblood libel blood libel n. (also with capital initials) the (unfounded) accusation that Jewish people use the blood of Christians in religious rituals, esp. in the preparation of Passover bread; an instance of this (cf. blood accusation n.); (also in extended use) an unfounded defamation.This idea was propagated throughout the Middle Ages and sporadically thereafter until the early 20th cent. [Perhaps after Russian krovavyj navět (1879 or earlier; now krovavyj navet); compare Yiddish blut-bilbl, post-biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew 'alilat dam (both 19th cent. or earlier, although it is unclear when the Hebrew term started to be used in this technical sense), German Blutverleumdung (1859 or earlier), all lit. ‘blood libel’.] ΚΠ 1911 Reform Advocate 19 Aug. 17/1 The Real Russians have decided to continue the agitation of the blood libel against the Jews. 1914 Amer. Jewish Year Bk. 210 Bishop of Minsk ceases to obtain his bread from a Jewish baker, owing to blood libels. 1935 C. Roth Ritual Murder Libel & Jew 24 A work in which the Blood Libel was repeated in grotesque detail. 1991 A. M. Dershowitz Chutzpah iv. 103 The blood libel was a clerical invention charging the Jews with murdering Christian children in order to use their blood for religious rituals. 2006 Sunday Express (Nexis) 8 Jan. (Features section) 49 Mossad insiders deemed this supposed change of heart a blood libel on the men who never for a moment doubted the rightness of what they did in the name of Israel. < as lemmas |
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