You made my point! :)
When was the last blood libel trial in Western Europe? The 1913 Beilis trial was probably the world's last, I would guess.
--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > When was the last Jewish Blood Libel Trial in the
> US
>
> There was never a Jewish blood libel trial in US.
> Jews were citizens from
> the moment the US was founded. And our puritanism
> was deeply Judaeophilic.
>
> > and when was the last American killed for
> practicing witchcraft? 1750?
>
> 1692. And there was already an official apology by
> the judges involved by
> 1700, which might be the fastest official apology
> ever issued for a
> lynching. It was a rear-guard action action against
> secularization (or as
> they called it, "materialism") which failed.
>
> Michael
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