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Author Weinberg, Robert.

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

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (pages)).
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Series Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
Contents Introduction: a murder without a mystery -- The initial investigation -- The case against Beilis -- The trial -- Summation and verdict -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Beĭlis, Mendelʹ, 1874-1934 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Beĭlis, Mendelʹ, 1874-1934.
Trials (Murder) -- Ukraine -- Kiev.
Trials (Murder)
Ukraine -- Kyïv.
Blood accusation -- Ukraine.
Blood accusation.
Ukraine.
Antisemitism -- Russia -- History.
Antisemitism.
Russia.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781299999862
ISBN 0253011140 (electronic book)
9780253011145 (electronic book)
0253010993
9780253010995
0253011078
9780253011077
9781299999862
1299999867
Music No. MWT11531510