Book Review: Daň z krve (The Blood Tax)
Book Review: Daň z krve (The Blood Tax)

Summary/Abstract: Book Review: Daň z krve. (Blood Tax). By Jiří Dienstbier. Praha: Lidové noviny 2002. “When the Turkish Sultan.s forces drafted men for janissary troops, they made Slavic families give up their sons. It was called “a blood tax”. Sultans disappeared long ago, but the blood tax has been collected in the Balkan region up to these days...” This historicizing and illustrative statement quoted on the jacket of the book and joined by a photograph of the bleak and war-devastated country, unfortunately, not only apparently lowers the level of the book written by J. Dientsbier, but it also evokes a kind of a value-centered approach to the issue under discussion.

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