„Widowiska niewidziane” Legendy o żydowskich mordach rytualnych jako performance
„Invisible Spectacles”. Legends about Jewish Ritual Murders as Performance

Summary/Abstract: One of the features of blood libel legends is their exceptional historical permanence and elasticity, which makes it feasible to expand the basic scheme and adapt it to local circumstances, inter-group rela- tions and existing images. An analysis of this pheno- menon from the viewpoint of aperformative perspec- tive allows us to treat the situation of narration as an event involving participants, in accordance with the performance formula devised byRichard Bauman. On the other hand, we take acloser look ar the causal potential of those stories as acts of speech, transcen- ding the frames of asingle-occasion performance. The fundamental material source material consists in this case of interviews concerning the Orthodox sa- int, Gabriel Zabłudowski, conduced by the author in the county of Hajnow (the Podlasie region).

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