Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth by Magda Teter

Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth by Magda Teter

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Magda Teter’s “Blood Libel” Wins the 2021 George L. Mosse Prize

Magda Teter’s Blood Libel: On The Trail of An Antisemitic Myth has won the 2021 George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association and the 2021 Ronald Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Society

The George L. Mosse Prize is awarded each year “for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500.”

Magda Teter’s “Blood Libel” wins the 2020 National Jewish Book Award

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 …

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Tuesday, May 16, 4 PM Magda Teter, “Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism” Book launch and panel discussion featuring Bryan Massingale and Jed Shugerman, moderated by David Gibson. Co-Sponsored by Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies, Center on Religion and Culture, Center for Medieval Studies, the Institute …

Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth by Magda Teter

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 …