A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel

Copyright © 2014 by Edmund Levin

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to M. E. Sharpe, Inc., for permission to reprint material from “The Iushchinskii Murder and the Expert Psychiatric-Psychological Opinion,” by V. M. Bekhterev, translated by Lydia Razran Stone, from Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, vol. 41, no. 2 (March–April 2003).

English translation copyright © 2003 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

The excerpt from “The Prioress’s Tale” has been adapted from The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queen: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser, by D. Lang Purves (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1870).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levin, Edmund.

A child of Christian blood : murder and conspiracy in Tsarist Russia : the Beilis blood libel / Edmund Levin.

pages cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8052-4299-7

1. Blood accusation—Russia. 2. Christianity and antisemitism—Russia. 3. Antisemitism—Russia—Case studies. 4. Russia—Trials, litigation, etc. I. Title.

BM585.2.L48 2013 305.892’4047—dc23 2013019938

eBook ISBN: 978-0-8052-4324-6

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