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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : a murder without a mystery
- The initial investigation
- The case against Beilis
- The trial
- Summation and verdict
- Epilogue.