Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia : the Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis.

By:

Weinberg, Robert

Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: MWT11531510Series: Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studiesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0253011140
9780253011145

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

345.0 23

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KKY41.B45

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Contents:

Introduction: a murder without a mystery -- The initial investigation -- The case against Beilis -- The trial -- Summation and verdict -- Epilogue.

Summary: 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 tsa.

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Introduction: a murder without a mystery -- The initial investigation -- The case against Beilis -- The trial -- Summation and verdict -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 tsa.

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