Rhodian ritual murder legend
The Rhodian ritual murder legend is a ritual murder legend in which the Jews of Rhodes were accused of ritual murder of a Christian boy in February 1840 . This allegation was supported by the consuls of England , France , Austria-Hungary , Sweden and Greece . The governor of the Ottoman Empire in Rhodes, Yusuf Pascha , supported the accusation and punished a large number of Jews. This went so far that the Jewish quarter was sealed off for twelve days.
The Jewish community of Rhodes turned to the Jewish community of Constantinople with a smuggled letter asking for help. This forwarded the application to various Central European countries and the influential Rothschild family. Finally, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdülmecid I , issued a Ferman (decree) in July 1840 , in which he declared the allegations untenable.
literature
- Marc D. Angel: D. The Jews of Rhodes: The History of a Sephardic Community. New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1980. ISBN 978-0-87203-072-5
- Jonathan Frankel: The Damascus Affair: "Ritual Murder" Politics, and the Jews in 1840. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-521-48396-4
- Bernard Lewis : The Jews of Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-691-00807-3
- Léon Poliakov : The History of Anti-Semitism. Volume I: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews . transl. by Richard Howard. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 2003. ISBN 0-8122-1863-9
- Encyclopedia Judaica (CD-ROM Edition Version 1.0). Ed. Cecil Roth. Keter Publishing House, 1997. ISBN 978-965-07-0665-4