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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press
[2014]
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| Series: | Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzjhc |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a murder without a mystery
- The initial investigation
- The case against Beilis
- The trial
- Summation and verdict
- Epilogue.