BLOOD PASSOVER
(PASQUE DI SANGUE)By ARIEL TOAFF
Cover: Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. Woodcut from the Ritual Responsals (Sheelot w-teshuvot) of Asher b. Yechiel, Constantinople, 1517
BLOOD PASSOVER
The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murder
By Ariel Toaff
COMPLETE ENGLISH TEXT
TRANSLATED BY GIAN MARCO LUCCHESE AND PIETRO GIANETTI
2007
Contents
- AT VENICE WITH HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR FRIEDRICH III (1469)
- Tobias da Magdeburg and cruel ritual murder of Little Simon of Trent
- Policy of refusing to grant permanent residence to Jews
- Italian and German Jews
- Prohibition to priests to proselytize among Jewish children
- The immediate removal from the city of so-called "Jews turned Christian"
- Italian Jews are pushed away by German Jews - Ashkenazi
- A classic ritualistic code, Arba'a Turim is printed
- "Rothschild Miscellanea", one of the most sumptuous and famous of all Jewish legal codes
- Attempts to influence the outcome of the Trent trials
- Revenge for the Trent trial - assassination attempts
- SALAMONCINO DA PIOVE DI SACCO, PREDATORY FINANCIER
- ASHER, THE BEARDED JEW (1475)
- German Ashkenazi Jews seeking to purchase the blood of Christian children
- Use of dried and pulverized blood for ritual purposes
- Hossar-Asher sentenced for selling silver bars covered with a foil of gold
- Jewish Passovers - the grotesque and sacrilegious anti-rituals
- The suckling lamb placed on the cross - blasphemous reenactment of the passion of Christ [Lamb of God]
- To everyone's great surprise, the Jewish defendants were released as "falsely accused"
- The implacable Antonio Gradenigo appealed against the sentence charging bribery of the magistrates
- The Jews of Candia repeated this contemptuous ritual every year on the very holy day of Holy Friday
- Girolamo Lambardo was arrested and sentenced for selling his vote to the Jews
- Murder of first-born - a ritual sacrifice perscribed by the "scriptures"
- Jews, in their Passover ceremonies, solemnly swore on the Torah scrolls to cause serious injury and harm to those faithful in Christ
- Blasphemous shamelessness of "gowned physician", garnished in gold and adorned with jewels
- On the eve of Passover the mutilated body of Simonino, a two-year old child, was found
- A world drenched with magical rites and exorcism
- The practical Caballah, black magic and necromancy
- PORTOBUFFOLÈ, VOLPEDO, ARENA PO, MAROSTICA, RINN
- Three Jews accused of ritual child murder, were executed at Venice
- Two Jews publicly executed for ritual murder
- The official correspondence sent by the court
- Minorite Franciscan friar arrested for accepting a commission from local Jews to commit a child murder to get Christian blood for their Passover
- False accusation of a child cruelly crucified in a holy ceremony with the participation of all the local Jews
- A five-year old child, Lorenzino Sossio, was found murdered, his body horribly mutilated
- A company of Jewish merchants ritually murder a child for the Christian blood
- Ritual murder of a two year old child for blood
- Professional child hunters - ritual murderers for the Christian blood
- A three-year old child murdered for blood
- FROM ENDINGEN TO REGENSBURG: RITUAL MURDERS OR GRIMMS BROTHERS' FAIRY TALES?
- A man and woman and two decapitated children found
- One of confessed participants of ritual murder describes the details
- One of the confessed testifies of other children he resold to Jews to be sacrificed for blood
- Emperor Friedrich III tries to intervene in order to protect the Jews
- Blood sold at very high prices to the richest and most influential German Jews
- Confessions of other ritual murders
- Forty five Jews arrested, convicted and burnt publicly
- Rabbi Jossel di Kelheim purchases a a Christian child for ritual murder
- Ritual murder and crucifixion of a child
- Investigation and arrest of 18 Jews upon request of Heinrich, the bishop of Regensburg
- Friedrich III personally ordered the city counsel of Regensburg to free the prisoners immediately
- A skeleton found in the cellars of Rabbi Jossel' dwelling
- Collection of funds begins among Jews to pay for Frederick's intervention on their behalf
- Massive propaganda and disinformation campaign starts among the Jews
- Seventeen accused prisoners released after paying off Frederick
- Distribution of insulting anti-Christian texts containing offensive and insulting expressions about Jesus
- MAGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC USES OF BLOOD
- The Jews, the killers of Christ, and their progeny, were said to been inflicted with an abnormal escape of blood
- Circumcision ceremony description by Leon of Modena, the noted rabbi of Venice
- In that blood he will live
- The texts of the practical Cabbalah stress the haemostatic and astringent powders of young blood
- One form of magical cannibalism - swallowing the foreskin of a circumcised
- The magical and empirical tradition of the foreskin of circumcision and blood
- Torah presupposed two different moral codes for Jews and non-Jews
- "The dark tunnel of necromantic medicine"
- The custom of ingesting dried blood
- CRUCIFIXION AND RITUAL CANNIBALISM: FROM NORWICH TO FULDA
- Ritual crucifixion of a child, William of Norwich
- The accused Jews obtain the protection of the King and his agents
- The Jews believed that, to bring redemption closer, and with it, their return to the Promised Land, they sacrificed a Christian child every year
- Christian child killed as confirmed by rabbi Efraim of Bonn
- Ritual murder of a child, Hugh, in the city of Lincoln
- The Jew Samuel - a ritual serial killer
- "Child crucifixions" in France
- Jews cruelly kill the five sons of a miller in Fulda
- "Ritual cannibalism"
- The Jews were the heirs of the curse falling upon their ancestors, guilty of crucifying the Redeemer
- The torments suffered by the Jews in body and soul could find certain remedy only through to the beneficial ingestion of Christian blood
- The martyred body of a three-year-old girl named Orsa found
- Two Christian brothers were mysteriously killed
- At Oberwesel on the Rhine "Good Werner" had been hung by the feet, by Jews
- Saint Rudolf of Bern, killed in 1294, is said to have been tortured and decapitated in the basement of a palace owned by a rich Jew
- DISTANT PRECEDENTS AND THE SAGA OF PURIM
- Barbarism of the Jews, the "haters of mankind"
- (The Jews) carry out this (rite) every year
- Ritual cannibalism
- Indirect confirmation of the phenomenon of ritual murder
- That Christian Europe of the Middle Ages feared the Jews is an established fact
- The slave trade
- Jews castrated young slaves intended for sale to the Moslems of Spain
- Purim came to acquire openly anti-Christian connotations
- The celebration of Purim is said to constitute the Hebraic ritual of death and resurrection
- "Crucifying the figure of the Redeemer every year, making him the object of shameless ridicule"
- Purim rites - culinary, even symbolically cannibalistic in nature
- A flesh-and-blood Christian, crucified for real on Purim
- Purim never renounced the clearly anti-Christian meaning
- SACRIFICE AND CIRCUMCISION: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PESCHACH
- Blood is a fundamental and indispensable element in all the memorial celebrations of Pesach, the Jewish Passover
- Seder symbology - Slavery, liberation, final Redemption
- "The precept of circumcision is equivalent to a sacrifice"
- Circumcision - exorcistic rite
- "The children of Israel left the land of Egypt thanks to the blood of the Passover sacrifice and the blood of circumcision"
- Cabalistic meaning of the blood of the circumcision
- The blood, intended to be drunk and sprinkled onto the table as a sign of vengeance and as a symbol of the curses directed at the enemies of Israel
- BLOOD, LEPROSY AND CHILD MURDER IN THE HAGGADAH (with graphics)
- "Memorial of blood" becomes the basis of the ritual of Pesach
- Hate as a basis for "religious" beliefs
- Why Ashkenazi Judaism should have chosen precisely this legend, out of so many?
- "Pour out your wrath against the peoples who do not recognize you"
- Turning the blood accusation around and blaming the victims to be the perpetrators
- The circumcision of Jesus
- THE DINNER AND INVECTIVE: THE SEDER AND THE CURSES
- THE MEMORIAL OF THE PASSION
- TO DIE AND KILL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD (with graphics)
- "DOING THE FIG": OBSCENE RITUALS AND GESTURES
- ISRAEL'S FINAL DEFIANCE
Revised by the original translators, Feb. 2011
Source: http://www.bloodpassover.com/toafftableofcontents.htm
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- "Blood Passover" - "Pasque di sangue" - PDF
Ariel Toaff's complete book in English translation with graphics, in PDF-format.
The revised version of August 1, 2016.
Note: now also as separate special edition with spaces between paragraphs for easy reading (all corrections made - different pagination due to spaces between paragraphs).
- New Jewish revelations on Jewish ritual murder and "blood libel"
Articles on Ariel Toaff - Israeli historian and the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome - and his book "Blood Passover"
Key Words:
Pasque di Sangue
Blood Passover
Bloody Passovers
Passovers of Blood
Easters of Blood
Bloody Easter
Translation
Revised by the original translators, Feb. 2011
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