The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I thank the diligent and resourceful interlibrary loan staff of Doe Library at the University of California, Berkeley, for their success in locating rare and arcane publications on the blood libel legend. I am also grateful to Simone Klugman of the reference department of the same library for carrying out a .computer search on the subject. A number of specialized libraries were kind enough to send me photocopies of their card catalogue entries on the blood libel. I am indebted to the Blaustein Library of the American Jewish Committee of the Institute of Human Relations in New York City and to the Hebrew Union College Library in Cincinnati for such assistance . I am also obliged to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New YorkCity for reproducing a copy of Louis Ginzberg's unpublished "Reply to Mr. Pranaitis" at my request. To the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, I express my thanks for sending me translated excerpts from General Mustafa Tlas's book The Matza of Zion. Finally to my dear wife, Carolyn, who is ever by my side, I wish to signal my heartfelt appreciation for her continued assistance and support during my research on this painful and unpleasant project. ix The Blood Libel Legend ...