The Jew and human sacrifice; human blood and Jewish ritual, an historical and sociological inquiry

I have occasion to be thankful for the success of this volume. Most of the journals which used formerly to talk about Jewish blood-ritual and Jewish ritual murder, have been for several months gradually exchanging those phrases for Jewish blood-murder, Jewish blood-supersti tion, avoiding direct reference to ritual. However, they still try to prove to their readers, that blood murder and cases of blood-superstition are peculiar to Judaism, and so they keep alive the idea that there must be something ritual behind it all.

"Every year, especially about Easter -time, there is a revival of the accusation that the Jews, or, if not all the Jews, certain Jews, make use of the blood of Christians for proposes of ritual [.] That is why I discuss the connection with the significance of blood as regards religious belief, and particulary as regards the superstitions of humanity at large." -from preface