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

Robert Weinberg

ISBN 10: 1644692821 / ISBN 13: 9781644692820

Published by Academic Studies Press Dez 2019, 2019

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Neuware - The book examines the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Jewish manager of a brick factory in Kyiv, who was arrested in 1911 for the ritual murder (popularly known as blood libel) of Andrei Iushchinskii, a Christian teenager. Beilis languished in jail for over two years as government officials conspired to frame him. By the time a jury exonerated Beilis in 1913, his trial had become a cause célèbre around the world. Weinberg has assembled a set of documents taken from the trial transcript, government reports, and newspapers that lays bare the government conspiracy and reveals the likely murderers. The book illuminates the nature of official and popular antisemitism in tsarist Russia on the eve of World War I.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia : The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press Dez 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: Russian
• ISBN 10: 1644692821
• ISBN 13: 9781644692820
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 14D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 474 grams

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Synopsis

The book examines the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Jewish manager of a brick factory in Kyiv, who was arrested in 1911 for the ritual murder (popularly known as blood libel) of Andrei Iushchinskii, a Christian teenager. Beilis languished in jail for over two years as government officials conspired to frame him. By the time a jury exonerated Beilis in 1913, his trial had become a cause célèbre around the world. Weinberg has assembled a set of documents taken from the trial transcript, government reports, and newspapers that lays bare the government conspiracy and reveals the likely murderers. The book illuminates the nature of official and popular antisemitism in tsarist Russia on the eve of World War I.

About the Author

Robert Weinberg is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College, where he teaches Russian and European history. He has published books and articles about the Russian revolutionary movement and tsarist and communist policies toward Jews.