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

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

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Author / Creator:Weinberg, Robert.
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (pages)
Language:English
Series:Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
Subject:
Beilis Mendel -- 1874-1934 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Murder) -- Ukraine -- Kyïv.
Blood accusation -- Ukraine.
Antisemitism -- Russia -- History.
Antisemitism.
Blood accusation.
Trials (Murder)
Russia.
Ukraine.
Ukraine -- Kyïv.
Electronic books.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302943
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ISBN:0253011140
9780253011145
0253010993
9780253010995
0253011078
9780253011077
9781299999862
1299999867
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: 9781299999862
Publisher's no.:MWT11531510

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