- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
-
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- Correspondence
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- Obituaries
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- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
- Chapter:
- (p.483) The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
- Author(s):
Anna Landau-Czajka
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter addresses a series of religious paintings in the Sandomierz Cathedral, one of which depicts a ritual murder. In 2000, a debate began over what should be done with a painting whose message was so clearly and unambiguously antisemitic. Should a depiction of ritual murder be on display in a church even though Church doctrine has long recognized that Jews never killed children for matzah? On the other hand, should works of art be censored? If they are illegal or immoral, should they be removed? The subject of the painting in Sandomierz Cathedral soon ceased to be merely a local issue when discussion of it filled the Polish press for several weeks. The main problem seemed to be that the myth of ritual murder, though it should by now have been relegated to the past along with that of the existence of witches, was a subject whose interest, in Poland at least, was by no means confined to historians and folklorists. This should come as no surprise, since the issue of ritual murder was still taken seriously by the press in the period between the two world wars. Despite official Church prohibitions, accusations against the Jews were still being made during that period.
Keywords: religious paintings, Sandomierz Cathedral, ritual murder, antisemitic painting, Church doctrine, Jews, matzah, Polish press, Poland, Church prohibitions
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
-
Review Essays Some Remarks on Leszek Hońdo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków - The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
- The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967‒1968: Documents
-
Book Reviews Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands - Haḥevrah hayehudit bemamlekhet polin-lita
- A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnow
- From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question
- Żydzi Lubelszczyzny 1914‒1918
- Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIXi XXwieku
- Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
- Utwory nieznane. Ze zbiorów Tomasza Niewodniczańskiego w Bitburgu: Wiersze, Kabaret, Artykuły, Listy
- Szlagiery starej Warszawy: Śpiewnik andrusowski
- Party na Nalewkach
- Sąsiedzi: Historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka
- Burning Questions a Film By
- Collaboration during the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941‒44
- Studia dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku
- Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
- Błogosławiony Bóg Izraela
- Correspondence
- Exchange between Dina Porat and Roni Stauber, and Alina Cała
- Obituaries
- Stanislaus A. Blejwas 1941‒2001
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index