Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe

An Online Exhibition from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 2002-2003 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania

The Ritual Murder Trial in Modern Jewish History: What is New?
Postcard, "Autopsy of the corpse of Anežžka Hrůzová in the Polná morgue."
[Courtesy of Muzeum Vysočiny pobočka Polná.]
(Scan Courtesy of Etty Lasmann)

Handwritten message reads: "Dear Friends, we just received a letter from the district court concerning our matter. Thanks and heartfelt greetings, Your devoted, Havelinský's."

Ritual Murder of Simon of Trent, woodcut illustration, Schedel's Nüremberg Chronicle, 1493.

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