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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weinberg, Robert
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press [2014]
Colección:Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzjhc
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a murder without a mystery
  • The initial investigation
  • The case against Beilis
  • The trial
  • Summation and verdict
  • Epilogue.