“Jewish slaughterers murder christian maidservant Estera Sollymossy”
Jewish ritual murder
Keywords:
anti-Semitism, Jewish ritual murder, 19th century, Tisza-Eszlar affairAbstract
The article deals with the murder of the 14-year-old maidservant Ester Sollymossy, which was allegedly perpetrated by Jews, including their rabbi, in Tisza-Eszlar in Hungary. This murder further strengthened the already wide-spread anti- Semitism among the people; the author analysed reports on the incident in the five major Slovene newspapers of the time in order to determine the level of anti-Semitism in Slovenia at the time. From the first short news items that appeared in June 1882, to the end of one of the most resonant trials of the decade in 1883, newspapers featured many short and long articles about the affair; Slovene newspapers, in particular the central Catholic daily Slovenec, did not hide their anti- Jewish orientation.
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