Sunday, July 8, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Covenant: The Catholic Church and the Blood Libel Myth: A Complicated Story by Massimo Introvigne - 'The publication in Italy of a book by Ariel Toaff (an historian at Bar-Ilan University and the son of Italy's most beloved rabbi, Elio Toaff), Pasque di Sangue, claiming that the ritual slaughter of Christian children in order to drink their blood did in fact occur in some Ashkenazi communities in the 15th century, revamped an old controversy. Toaff finally decided to withdraw his book from distribution. Somewhat lost in the debate was the fact that an agency independent from the Jewish community had repeatedly investigated the blood libel accusations against the Jews between 1247 and 1759 and issued several reports denouncing the accusations as both stupid and false, including in the very cases studied by Toaff. That agency was the Vatican...'
