An edition of The Damascus affair (1997)

The Damascus affair

"ritual murder," politics, and the Jews in 1840

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An edition of The Damascus affair (1997)

The Damascus affair

"ritual murder," politics, and the Jews in 1840

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In February 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 celebre across much of the Western world, even becoming a factor in the major diplomatic conflicts of the period. Jews in many countries groped for ways to save the surviving prisoners in Syria and their own good name.

A Jewish delegation led by Sir Moses Montefiore and Adolphe Cremieux was sent to the Middle East in the hope of discovering the real murderers.

Jonathan Frankel assesses the affair as a factor in European and Jewish politics, as a chapter in Jewish history and historiography, and as the stuff of radically conflicting myths - myths that eventually fed into the extraordinary events of the mid-twentieth century: the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. This is the first book since the 1840s to analyze the Damascus affair.

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491

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The Damascus affair: "ritual murder," politics, and the Jews in 1840
1997, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-470) and index.

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Cambridge, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.892/40569144
Library of Congress
DS135.S95 F728 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 491 p. :
Number of pages
491

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL968765M
Internet Archive
damascusaffairri0000fran
ISBN 10
0521482461, 0521483964
LCCN
96005288
OCLC/WorldCat
34243750
Library Thing
3151396
Goodreads
1092471
1092472

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