A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and C
📂
Standards
📅
2014
🏛
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
🌐
English
⚖ 2 MB
In 1911 in Kiev, Russia, Jewish factory worker Mendel Beilis was arrested for blood libel (“ritual murder to obtain Christian blood”) after the body of a young boy was found in a cave near the brick factory where he worked. Despite evidence to the contrary, the trial began in 1913. The prosecutors c