Jewish ritual murder

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Jewish ritual murder is an age-old accusation that some Jews in the past in celebration of their religious festivals of Purim and Passover murdered and drained the blood of a Christian child in order to make three cornered Purim pastries or matzo.[1] Both Purim and Passover celebrates the deaths of Jewish oppressors and their children.

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Ariel Toaff's work

Saint Simon of Trento
Saint Simon of Trento

Recently in Italy, Ariel Toaff, an Israeli university professor controversially published the book Ebrei d'Europa e Pasque di Sangue (European Jews and Blood Easters) where he hypothesized that some accusations of the past against Jews for their rituals were true. He was harshly criticized and had to call his book off. Israel Shamir was among the few who supported his research. The focus is set on the figure of 2-year-old Saint Simon of Trento, also called Simonino da Trento, who was kidnapped and murdered by Jews. His body was found in a cellar of a Jewish owned house in Trento, Italy by local magistrates. There was even an eye-witness. Eight Jews were sentenced to death and executed in late June 1475.

Quotations

Goy katan, «small Christian», was the expression used to introduce the victim (who was often anonymous) of the ritual murder, whose blood should have been added to the foods to show and to eat in the Seder dinners.
  • This sentence means "This is the blood of a young Christian" , and was used as a ritual spell for murderous dinners:
Zeh ha-dam shel goy katan
  • This is a quotation in the book by Giulio Morosini, originally written in old Italian, quoted by Ariel Toaff in his book:
[referring to Jews] You use to teach, beside giving them milk, the observance and the conception of the holy law and language, by Jewish names and by uttering many things... And this is done so as for them to soon understand the law and the Bible. But alongside with that, you spread the hatred toward the Goyim (Gentiles), by which you mean Christians, you never give up the chance to curse them, or to let them be cursed by your children. Furthermore, the name by which you often use to call our [Christian] children is Shekatzim, which means abominations, by that word you also call the idols. In the same way you call our churches with another synonymous, Tonghavà, which still means abomination. You often warn your children to stay away from Tonghavà (Christian churches), not to speak with Sheketz and other similar bad things.


Shekez meant «something which was an abomination», while its female form sheksa or shekse was a neologism which indicated the young Christian girls who had sexual affairs with young Jews.
Until recently, among Ashkenazi Jews in Venice, «scigazzello» was in use as a despicable word. The word shekez, shegez or shegesc was meant to point in a spiteful way the young Christians, referred to as "abominative expressions of what was created", it was very used in almost every city where German-Jewish communities had formed, even in Northern Italy. This word is not quoted in the protocols of the trials of Trento, where the word goy («people», «nation») is used to generally refer to Christians, and goy katan («little Christian»), meaning small boy of Christian religion.

Notes

  1. ^ Reckless rites: Purim and the legacy of Jewish violence, by Elliott S. Horowitz, p. 225

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