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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Weinberg, Robert
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : a murder without a mystery
  • The initial investigation
  • The case against Beilis
  • The trial
  • Summation and verdict
  • Epilogue.