from "blood libel" to "pogrom"

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Tragically it makes perfect sense.
 
Gerald Cohen

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 Tom Zurinskas (Sun 1/16/2011 1:40 PM) wrote:

Sorry.  I've really never heard the term "blood libel" before.  Perhaps OED and Websters have not either.  It doesn't make sense as a word to me as well.

Tom Zurinskas, 

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