Ariel Toaff - Passovers Of Blood.opus
PASSOVERS OF BLOOD | The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murder (((Ariel Toaff))) | 2007
"Very infrequently, a book about history becomes history—never was that circumstance more apt than (((Ariel Toaff)))’s publication of Passovers of Blood (the “Toaff Affair”). Not only does the book itself have something important to say about the era it covered, but the Toaff Affair also has something important to say about our era.
On February 7, 2007, a relativ...
Ariel Toaff - Passovers Of Blood.opus
PASSOVERS OF BLOOD | The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murder (((Ariel Toaff))) | 2007
"Very infrequently, a book about history becomes history—never was that circumstance more apt than (((Ariel Toaff)))’s publication of Passovers of Blood (the “Toaff Affair”). Not only does the book itself have something important to say about the era it covered, but the Toaff Affair also has something important to say about our era.
On February 7, 2007, a relatively unknown Israeli professor of medieval history, Professor (((Ariel Toaff))), published a book that immediately caused a sensation, at least in the Jewish and Israeli press, and he came under a withering assault from all quarters. From the sleepy environs of medieval history, Professor Toaff, the son of the then Chief Rabbi of Rome, became an instant Jewish pariah."
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