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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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Мова: | Англійська |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press
[2014]
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| Серія: | Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Онлайн доступ: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzjhc |
| Резюме: | 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. This account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia. Primary documents culled from the trial transcript, newspaper articles, Beilis's memoirs, and archival sources, many appearing in English for the first time, bring readers face to face with this notorious trial. |
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| Фізичний опис: | 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) |
| Бібліографія: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253011140 9780253011145 0253010993 9780253010995 0253011078 9780253011077 9781299999862 1299999867 |