Abstract
On September 22, 1928, in the small upper New York state town of Masseria, a four-year-old girl was reported missing by her parents. As neighbors and state troopers searched the woods, a rumor spread that Jews had murdered the child to drain her blood for a ritual related to the approaching Yom Kippur holiday, the most sacred of Jewish holy days. The accusation originated with one Albert Commas, a recent immigrant from Salonika, Greece, who operated a small café and ice cream parlor and had earlier voiced antisemitic feelings. Taking the accusation seriously, Mayor Hawes ordered trooper Mickey McCann to investigate. With the approval of Hawes and Mc-Cann, some zealous volunteer firemen, several with Ku Klux Klan affiliations, searched the basement of a Jewish-owned clothing store looking for incriminating evidence. The vigilantes then turned their lights on other stores owned by Jews that had closed for the night.KeywordsJewish CommunityRitual SacrificeHuman SacrificeRitual MurderVatican CouncilThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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