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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Main Author: Weinberg, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
Series:Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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