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EDMUND LEVIN is a Writers Guild and Emmy award–winning writer/producer for Good Morning America. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and Slate, among other periodicals, and was included in The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology.
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- Building A Case
- Still Crucial A Century Later
Previously, many experts concluded that the Jewish community was slow to come to the defense of Beilis. According to Edmund Levin, whose book Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libelwill soon be released by Schocken, Rubin’s research is significant because it contradicts this narrative, showing that ...
This theme of unity in the face of hatred was again embodied in the testimony of Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh of Moscow, who served as an expert witness for the defense. According to Rubin, Mazeh’s testimony was one of the highlights of the trial. “There were glowing reports in the Jewish press praising his eloquent defense, and he became famous for a feat o...
The jury’s verdict exonerated Beilis, but stated that the prosecution had proven that Yushinsky had been murdered “in the brick factory belonging to the Jewish surgical hospital” and was done in a manner designed to draw “five glasses of blood.” After the trial, Beilis left with his wife and five children to the Holy Land before eventually moving t...
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“Long before O. J. Simpson and Amanda Knox, Mendel Beilis was the most famous defendant of his time—the last Jew ever to be tried for blood libel. Edmund Levin’s A Child of Christian Blood brings the bizarre episode to life with passion and precision. It’s a fascinating and cautionary tale, beautifully told.” —George Stephanopoulos
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Feb 21, 2014 · ‘A Child of Christian Blood : Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel ’ by Edmund Levin. By Jonathan Yardley. February 21, 2014 at 5:38 p.m. EST.
This website is maintained by Edmund Levin. A Jewish brick factory clerk in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire, is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy for his blood to make Passover matzo – the age-old blood libel.
Feb 25, 2014 · Edmund Levin. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 25, 2014 - History - 448 pages. A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his...
