Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia
The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis
On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis's trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg's account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-253-01114-5
- EAN: 9780253011145
- Produktnummer: 20448728
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'038 KB
- Abbildungen: 19 b&w illus., 2 maps
Über den Autor
Robert Weinberg is Professor of History at Swarthmore College and author of The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps (IUP, 1993) and Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland.
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