Magda Teter’s Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth wins the 2020 The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award, National Jewish Book Award in the category “Writing Based on Archival Material.” Judges remarks: Magda Teter’s thoroughly well-researched and meticulous account of a persistent and deadly antisemitic myth examines the blood libel from …
Magda Teter and Ruth Franklin talk about Teter’s new book, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, in which Teter examines how the myth of blood libel emerged in medieval Europe, and spread with the invention of the printing press and persists today. February 12th, 2020: Book Launch Event at the Cullman …
October 20th, 2021, 4PM, Brown University, Providence, RI: “The Arthur B. and David B. Jacobson Lecture” Past Events Thursday, February 12th, 7PM, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the Schwartzman Building at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. Magda Teter and Ruth Franklin talk …
A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth―how it took root in medieval Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Available, January 6th, 2020 Following the paper trail across Europe, from England to Italy to Poland, Magda Teter shows how the blood libel was rooted in …