A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669

by Arthur Goldhammer and Pierre Birnbaum

In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Rapha l L vy, a French Jew, was convicted, tortured, and executed for an act he did not commit, a fiction deriving from medieval anti-Jewish myth: the ritual murder of a Christian boy to obtain blood for satanic rituals. When L vy was accused of the ritual murder, it was the first accusation of blood libel for a century. L...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804774048
• ISBN13: 9780804774048
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"