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Edmund Levin, “A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia” (Schocken, 2014)

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Episode • Jul 13, 2014 • 1h 7m

There is a lot of nasty mythology about Jews, but surely the most heinous and ridiculous is the bizarre notion that “they” (as if Jews were all the same) have long been in the habit of murdering Christian children, draining them of blood, and mixing said blood into Passover matzo....

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