The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town

The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American TownOn Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, age four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her. At one point, someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews, and as the search continued, policemen and townspeople alike gave credence to the quickly spreading rumors. The allegation of ritual murder, known to Jews as

winds the poet’s own family history of trauma and loss

Boorstin’s The Image

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Contains 10 pyramid infusers

if you can keep it

Her unpretentious and engaging voice makes her the kind of companion a reader wants to stay with wherever she goes

this book will inspire and enlighten you

74 B&W photos

a bibliography

The first known mystery written by an African-American

Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups