The Damascus Affair and the Debate on Ritual Murder in Early Victorian Britain
The Damascus Affair and the Debate on Ritual Murder in Early Victorian Britain
This reading of the Damascus Affair reveals that the Jews’ victory does not provide a last vestige of support for an interpretation of the affair as a victory for the progress of reason and toleration in the face of barbarism and prejudice. The Jews’ exculpation in Britain was the political and military outcome in the near East, and the political culture which protected the Jews in Britain was steeped in an anti-Catholic current. The Jews’ victory, we might say, signified defeat for one form of prejudice and victory for another.
Keywords: Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Diaspora, Jews, Muslim, Secular, Minority groups, Rituals
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