Blood: Reflections on what unites and divides us
By Anthony Bale and David Feldman
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Blood - Anthony Bale
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Anthony Bale, David Feldman, Joanne Rosenthal
In our Veins
Marc Michael Epstein
Shylock’s Blood
Anthony Bale
Modern Blood
David Feldman
Blood Imagery, Jewish Rituals, and Social Activism
Robin Judd
Sucking Blood
Sander L. Gilman
Blood Archaeology, Disease Prevention, and Eugenic Affirmation
Dorothy Porter
Universal Blood
Gil Anidjar
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
This volume of essays has been compiled to complement the exhibition Blood at the Jewish Museum London. We are grateful to Abigail Morris, the staff of the Museum and especially to Joanne Rosenthal for the knowledge, skill and enthusiasm they have brought to this collaborative venture.
We would also like to record our thanks to the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund for Public Engagement, which made a grant to facilitate this publication.
Dr Jan Davison has managed this project from beginning to end. Her expertise and input have been invaluable.
‘Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; surely thou hast hated thine own blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.’
Ezekiel 35:6
‘This cursed Jew hym hente, and heeld hym faste,
And kitte his throte, and in a pit hym caste.
I seye that in a wardrobe they hym threwe
Where as thise Jewes purgen hire entraille!
O cursed folk of Herodes al newe,
What may youre yvel entente yow availle?
Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille,
And namely ther th’onour of God shal sprede;
The blood out crieth on youre cursed dede.’
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prioress’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales (late fourteenth century)
‘No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history and why history is so often confused is that it has been written by men who were ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves… Language and religion do not make a race – there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.’
Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion (1880)
‘Blood is a very special juice.’
Mephistopheles, in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Part 1 (1808)
Introduction
‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?’
Shylock, in William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, c. 1596.
The first plague in Egypt, rivers turned to blood (Exodus 7:19). Coloured etching, 1775–79. Wellcome Library, London.
Blood is something that all humans share: a vital force that courses through our veins – the giver of life. This is the definition of blood at its simplest and most elemental. Look to religious, early medical, racial and historical texts and images and blood takes on other meanings which proliferate in an amazing variety of institutional and cultural contexts. Blood, it transpires, is never simple: blood can always be interpreted.
This book gathers together a range of reflections on how blood, in its regulation and its representation, has been understood as a part of Jewish ritual and culture and how it has been traded as a symbol between Jews and non-Jews and, in particular, between Christians and Jews. Blood is central to Jewish religion and ritual: it has been used by Jews for their