The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town

Author:   Eugene Avrutin ,  Aleksandra Glebovskaya
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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Pages:   242
Publication Date:   04 August 2020
Format:   Hardback
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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 emerged that Jews had 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, the 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 Evgeny Avrutin explores not only the multiple factors that caused fear and conflict in everyday life but also the social and cultural worlds of a multi-ethnic population that had coexisted for hundreds of years. This beautifully crafted book provides an intimate glimpse into small-town life. 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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Author:   Eugene Avrutin ,  Aleksandra Glebovskaya
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
ISBN:  

9781644694473


ISBN 10:   1644694476
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   04 August 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Evgeny Avrutin is Professor of Modern European Jewish History and the Tobor Family Scholar in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author and co-editor of several volumes, including Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010) and Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation (2017). The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

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