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The Velizh Affair - Blood Libel in a Russian Town (Paperback)
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The Velizh Affair - Blood Libel in a Russian Town (Paperback)
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On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his
lunch and went to play outside. Fedor never returned home from his
walk. Several days later, a neighbor found his mutilated body
drained of blood and repeatedly pierced. In small market towns,
where houses were clustered together, residents knew each other on
intimate terms, and people gossiped in taverns, courtyards, and
streets, even the most trivial bits of news spread like wildfire.
It did not take long before rumors began to emerge that Jews
murdered the little boy. The Velizh Affair reconstructs 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. This beautifully crafted book provides an intimate glimpse
into small-town life in eastern Europe. The case unfolded in a town
like any other town in the Russian Empire where lives were closely
interwoven, where rivalries and confrontations were part of
day-to-day existence, and where the blood libel was part of a
well-established belief system.
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