(Jewish Group) Some history: The Myth of the Vampire Jew and Blood Libels

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“For hours the black-haired Jew boy, diabolic joy in his face, waits in ambush for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood and thus robs her from her people …

The end is not only the end of the freedom of the peoples oppressed by the Jew, but also the end of this parasite upon the nations. After the death of his victim, the vampire sooner or later dies too.”

(from Mein Kampf)

Much like the yellow badge, the ghettos, and the mass deportations Jews suffered, the metaphor of the Jewish vampire was not a Nazi invention. Hitler was not that creative, or he might have been accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, joined the impressionists and poured his hateful rage onto a canvas rather than into Europe.

The image of the Jew as a proto-vampire is found on cathedral walls and in sculptures, paintings, frescoes and literature dating back to the Middle Ages. In later centuries many works of literature hopped on the bandwagon, including “Canterbury Tales,” “Entdecktes Judenthum” (“Judaism Unmasked”) and even modern novels such as Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”. Depicted therein are groups of Jews seeking fresh Christian blood.

The metaphor of the vampire Jew was not forged in a cultural vacuum, but rather was derived from a new anti-Semitic genre, the hateful and terribly efficient trope of the blood libel. In these two-dimensional portrayals the story went that on Passover eve the body of a Christian child was found, resulting in the inevitable conclusion that the Jews had killed the child and used his blood to bake their matzos. After all, as every good baker knows, in a pinch, you can substitute flour with children’s blood!

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