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

by Robert S. Weinberg

Book Overview

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 c?l?bre. The jury ultimately acquitted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253011078
• ISBN13: 9780253011077
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"