Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
by
Edmund Levin
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre.
On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian...