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Hardcover A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669 Book

ISBN: 0804774048

ISBN13: 9780804774048

A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669

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...

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