Blood libel

Blaming Jews was a way to get out of debt.

Madeleine Schwartz
Feb. 4 2016 12:01AM

How the death of a boy in 12th-century England gave birth to a libel that won’t die.

Sept. 18 2015 12:01AM

Did you know that Jews are “human history’s most bloodthirsty people”?

Mehdi Khalaji
April 22 2015 12:01AM

In chronicling a blood libel from a century ago, Red Heifer, a new opera by the Hungarian-Jewish conductor Ivan Fischer, underscores the resurgence of anti-Semitism. . .

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
Oct. 31 2013 12:00AM

Were the massacres of 1096, when hordes of Crusaders butchered the Jewish communities of the Rhineland, an exceptional event? Yes—but also no. (With video.)

Simon Schama
Sept. 3 2013 12:00AM