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    Artist

  • Kilian, Jeremias, 1665-1730, engraver

    • Title

  • [Blessed Heinrich, a boy of Munich murdered by the Jews]

    • Other Title(s)

  • Der selige Heinrich ein Knab zu Mönchen, von den Juden ermordet

  • Physical Description

    1 print : engraving ; 10" x 8" ; 26 x 21 cm

  • Date

    1695

  • Notes

    Titled across top, captioned across bottom.

  • Summary

    Unnumbered plate in a series of anti-Semitic prints titled "Ritual Murder in Bavarian Localities": A nude boy on a low table, surrounded by men in cloaks, his blood streaming from a cut in the shoulder into a dish.

  • Subject

    Antisemitism; Antisemitism, Germany, Bavaria; Blood accusation

  • Medium

    Engravings; Prints

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Jews were often falsely accused of secretely killing Christians as a form of ritual murder by anti-Semites. This anti-Semitic accusation is commonly called blood accusation or blood libel, because anti-Semites believed that Christian blood was used in Jewish religous rituals.

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Citation

Kilian, Jeremias: [Blessed Heinrich, a boy of Munich murdered by the Jews], Leo Baeck Institute, 78.71b.