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.
#1395661 in Books Cambridge University Press 1983-01-28Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.98 x 1.89 x 5.98l; #File Name: 0521229847896 pages
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