Notably, the "Jewish execution" of
>upside-down hanging (pace Guido Kisch), was often accompanied, especially in
>Germany, by the hanging of two dogs on either side of the executed Jew.
>Esther Cohen, Jerusalem
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>
Esther,
Is this related to the symbolism invoked in the story Ephraim of Bonn
tells of the young Jewish woman exhumed in a Crusade pogram and hanged with a
rat tied around her neck? I've wondered for a while what that meant.
Susan Einbinder
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Susan Einbinder
Hebrew Union College
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