The Damascus Affair - 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840 (Paperback)

In February of 1840, an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Many Jews in that city were charged with ritual murder and tortured until they confessed. The case turned into a cause célèbre across much of the Western world and produced an explosion of polemics, fantastic theories, and strange projects. This book, the first since 1840, assesses the affair as a factor in European and Jewish politics of the time, a chapter in Jewish history and historiography, and the stuff of radically conflicting myths that eventually led to the Holocaust and the establishment of the Israeli state.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Jonathan Frankel
Dimensions:	227 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	491
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-48396-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-521-48396-4
Barcode:	9780521483964

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