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The Velizh Affair Blood Libel in a Russian Town - Eugene M Avrutin 2017 PDF Oxford University Press BOOKS HISTORY
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The Velizh Affair Blood Libel in a Russian Town
Author: Eugene M Avrutin
Year: 2017
Number of pages: 249
Format: PDF
File size: 21 MB
Language: ENG

The Velizh Affairreconstructs the lives of Jews and their Christian neighbors caught up in the aftermath of this chilling criminal act. The investigation into Fedor's death resulted in the charging of forty-three Jews with ritual murder, theft and desecration of Church property, and the forcible conversion of three town residents. Drawing on an astonishing number of newly discovered trial records, historian Eugene M. Avrutin explores the multiple factors that not only caused fear and conflict in everyday life, but also the social and cultural worlds of a multiethnic population that had coexisted for hundreds of years.

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