On
Nov.14-15, the Cardozo Law School Program on Holocaust Human Rights Studies,
and the Law & Humanities Institute, will sponsor a conference on the tragic
history of the "Blood Libel", in which Jews have been accused across
the millennia of killing Christian children to use their blood in the Passover
ritual. Originating in England early in the second millennium, the libel spread
eastward to Russia, and it is not unknown in the United States and
Canada.
One of the most infamous of these libels was the Mendel Beilis case in the waning days of Tsarist Russia, and it is the 100th anniversary of the near-miraculous acquittal of Beilis that occasionalizes this conference. The scholarly centerpiece of our discussions will be Hannah R. Johnson's influential recent book, BLOOD LIBEL, a complex history of the phenomenon, and Prof. Johnson of the U. of Pittsburgh will speak; the literary centerpiece will be
Bernhard Malamud's fictional rendering of the Beilis case,THE FIXER, which will be discussed widely by various speakers. Panelists include the grandson of Beilis and attorney Jeremy Garber, who have a major bone to pick with the novel; Prof. Vivian Curran of the U. of Pittsburgh Law School; Prof. David Fraser of the U. of Nottingham (UK); Prof. Jeffrey Mehlman of Boston U.; Prof. Harriet Murav of the U. of Illinois; Prof. Sanford Levinson of U. Texas Law School; and Prof. Richard Weisberg of Cardozo.
The event takes place in the Moot Court room of the Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Avenue, NYC (12th and Fifth). The Thursday sessions, which include a lunch for all in attendance, are from 8:30-5:30; and the Friday sessions are from 9-12:30.
For further details and to reserve for the symposium, contact Johanna Rubbert at johannac.rubbert@gmail,com or Alyssa Grzesh, agrzesh@gmail.com
One of the most infamous of these libels was the Mendel Beilis case in the waning days of Tsarist Russia, and it is the 100th anniversary of the near-miraculous acquittal of Beilis that occasionalizes this conference. The scholarly centerpiece of our discussions will be Hannah R. Johnson's influential recent book, BLOOD LIBEL, a complex history of the phenomenon, and Prof. Johnson of the U. of Pittsburgh will speak; the literary centerpiece will be
Bernhard Malamud's fictional rendering of the Beilis case,THE FIXER, which will be discussed widely by various speakers. Panelists include the grandson of Beilis and attorney Jeremy Garber, who have a major bone to pick with the novel; Prof. Vivian Curran of the U. of Pittsburgh Law School; Prof. David Fraser of the U. of Nottingham (UK); Prof. Jeffrey Mehlman of Boston U.; Prof. Harriet Murav of the U. of Illinois; Prof. Sanford Levinson of U. Texas Law School; and Prof. Richard Weisberg of Cardozo.
The event takes place in the Moot Court room of the Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Avenue, NYC (12th and Fifth). The Thursday sessions, which include a lunch for all in attendance, are from 8:30-5:30; and the Friday sessions are from 9-12:30.
For further details and to reserve for the symposium, contact Johanna Rubbert at johannac.rubbert@gmail,com or Alyssa Grzesh, agrzesh@gmail.com
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