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Vampirology (VAMPIRES) Part 1 with Jeff Holdeman

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Bloodsuckers, Anti-Semitism and Nosferatu at 100

Many film and literature scholars draw parallels between vampirism and something called blood libel, which is old and hateful slander about Jewish people needing human blood for Passover. So you do not have to dig deep underground to find scholarly papers about literary and cinematic vampires and how they've been used and sometimes co-opted by anti-Semites. Noah: It just feels like this horrifying resurrection of history itself.

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