A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669
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In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Rapha l L vy, a French Jew, was convicted, tortured, and executed for an act he did not commit, a fiction deriving from medieval anti-Jewish myth: the ritual murder of a Christian boy to obtain blood for satanic rituals. When L vy was accused of the ritual murder, it was the first accusation of blood libel for a century. L...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804774048
ISBN13:9780804774048
Release Date:October 2012
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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