The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840
ISBN-13:
9780521483964
ISBN-10:
0521483964
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Jonathan Frankel
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
512 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521483964
ISBN-10:
0521483964
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Jonathan Frankel
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
512 pages
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The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840 (ISBN-13: 9780521483964 and ISBN-10: 0521483964), written by authors
Jonathan Frankel, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.
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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.
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