The pinnacle of hatred
Subtitle: the blood libel and the Jews
By: Darren O'Brien
Contributors: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim)
Publisher: The Hebrew University Magnes Press for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9789654934770; 9789654934787
Subjects: Blood accusation; Jews; Persecutions; History
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Macquarie University, North Ride, N.S.W., 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [406]-453) and index.
Table of contents: title: Julius Streicher, Der Stürmer, and Ritualmord; title: Schramm, Himmler and Der jüdische Ritualmord; title: The present; title: A pre-Ritualmord taxonomy; title: The early phase; title: Macroscopic and microscopic views of murder; title: Murder, mutilation murder, crucifixion murder; title: The Jews as crucifiers; title: The Holy Sepulchre and the First Crusade; title: Chroniclers, medieval monks and the "Christianicides"; title: Christian anxiety, blood libel and transubstantiation; title: Anti-hereticism and anti-Jewism; title: Law, theology, Jews, and heretics; title: Classifying a heretic and determining heretical behaviour; title: The first allegations of blood libel, 1235-1459; title: The true believers; title: Dissemination, elision, distortion, renewed fabrication; title: Moulding Ritualmord.