Contemporary Revival of the Blood Libels
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During the medieval epoch, Christian antisemitism spread the libel that Jews engaged in the ritual murder of non-Jews, supposedly mutilating the bodies and draining the blood of their victims for making Passover bread (also known as “blood libels”). This myth inspired countless antisemitic pogroms. The lecture will discuss a contemporary blood libel – the case of St. Philoumenos of Jacob's Well, supposedly ‘ritualistically’ murdered by ‘fanatical Jews’ in 1979 and canonized by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in 2009 – which is an is an evidence that this poisonous libel is alive today.
Photo: Drawing in the church of Machairas Monastery, Cyprus. 2006. Photograph by the author.
This talk is based on Dr. Gurevich's academic research published in Israel Studies journal and in Fathom journal.
Read his article in The Jewish Chronicle (UK): "It is time for Orthodox churches to confess on antisemitism".
Photo: Drawing in the church of Machairas Monastery, Cyprus. 2006. Photograph by the author.
This talk is based on Dr. Gurevich's academic research published in Israel Studies journal and in Fathom journal.
Read his article in The Jewish Chronicle (UK): "It is time for Orthodox churches to confess on antisemitism".