on the subject of "blood libel"
Jan. 12th, 2011 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Someone else on my friends list did a poll, and I realized that I was also curious and have enough people here to get a large sample even if it's not a scientific one.
Since my big discovery of today was that lots of people didn't realize that the "blood libel" thing was a totally anti-semitic thing to say and I was surprised by that, the question becomes is this one of those things _every_ Jewish person knows but non-Jews may not have encountered?
ETA: Comments filled with fascinating anecdata. Have fun.
For those of you who still haven't caught up with this, Boing Boing explains.
Poll below.
[Poll #1667388]
Since my big discovery of today was that lots of people didn't realize that the "blood libel" thing was a totally anti-semitic thing to say and I was surprised by that, the question becomes is this one of those things _every_ Jewish person knows but non-Jews may not have encountered?
ETA: Comments filled with fascinating anecdata. Have fun.
For those of you who still haven't caught up with this, Boing Boing explains.
Poll below.
[Poll #1667388]
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:29 am (UTC)I know that Alaska is not the same as where I grew up in the midwest, but on a number of fronts they're similar in terms of voting trends, population and education, and I know that no one else in my family would know that "blood libel" carried such a connotation.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:22 am (UTC)(Getting him to talk often involved several drinks.)
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:13 am (UTC)ETA: Not Jewish, but grew up in Miami and NYC.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:15 am (UTC)I knew the second meaning of the term on the BoingBoing page but not the usage of the first.
I'm halachically Jewish, but came from a non-Jewish family (Episcopalian, actually); my mother's mother was born to a Jewish woman and adopted into an anti-Semitic Christian family (we got better). I went through a brief period of studying Judaism as a teenager, but I can't say I absorbed enough to consider that I'm from a Jewish background. Or not. Sort of in the middle. :)
Most of my study of Judaism in history has been in Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries, where Venice told the Vatican off and the papal interdict of 1606 over Venice's refusal, among other things, to treat their Jewish population badly (also civil trials of Catholic priests didn't go over too well). Anyhow, Venice was imperfect but more enlightened than most.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:37 am (UTC)'blood libel' pings as something that Sarah Palin shouldn't be throwing about and something to do with anti-Semitism, but I don't connect immediately it to the killing babies thing. I don't have the biblical reference at all, which was getting me really confused when that was the reference being given in various articles. I kept thinking, "I should know this. I do know this somewhere and that's not it."
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:24 am (UTC)I do, however, read widely and am interested in Jewish folklore.
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:27 am (UTC)I agree, the poll would be even more interesting if it called out the medievalists.
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