[Cz-L] Iuliu Barasch's Travel Log - Stage 5: Tarnow in Galicia

Czernowitzers...

Let's keep following the Galician-born Jewish physician, philosopher and writer on his adventurous journey to the Jewish communities in the Krakow Area, Galicia, Bukovina, Moldavia and Walachia:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2014/01/iuliu-baraschs-travel-report-on-jewish.html

February 25, 1843 - Stage 5: The Damascus Affair, a ritual murder accusation against the Jews of Damascus, attracted worldwide attention in the year 1840. Under this influence, Iuliu Barasch came in Tarnów face to face with blood libel rumors, which went around even in this small Galician county town at that period of time.

German transcription: http://hauster.de/data/Barasch1843022508.pdf

JewishEncyclopedia: "DAMASCUS AFFAIR - Accusation of ritual murder brought against the Jews of Damascus in 1840. [...] On Feb. 5, 1840, Father Thomas, originally from Sardinia, and the superior of a Franciscan convent at Damascus, disappeared with his servant. [...] Upon Thomas' disappearance the French consul at Damascus, Ratti Menton, who was an enemy to the Jews, following the advice of certain monks, instituted investigations in the Jewish quarter; and the governor, Sherif Pasha, pretending to act merely in accordance with the friendly relations existing between the governments of Louis Philippe and Mohammed Ali, aided the French consul in a culpable way. A confession was extorted by torture from a Jewish barber named Negrin, and eight of the most notable Jews, among them Joseph Lañado, Moses Abulafia, and Farḥi, were imprisoned and tortured.[...] The Jewish communities of Europe were appealed to, and public meetings were held in London, Paris, and even New York and Philadelphia. Especially important was a meeting called by the lord mayor of London at the Mansion House, London, July 3, 1840."

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4862-damascus-affair

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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