Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives

by Magda Teter

As a minority group for most of their history, Jews were often marginalized and persecuted. Traces of their lives can be found in the archives of the dominant societies, but only as they intersected with the concerns of those in power. Just as Natalie Zemon Davis, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carlo Ginzburg, and others recovered the voices of the peasants, so, too, scholars of Jewish history and culture have productively mined these reservoirs of evidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9633868254
• ISBN13: 9789633868256
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher