Cry Bloody Murder

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Tager, Decay. This version was based on his Russian original, published in 1933 and 1934. I have used the second revised version contained in Delo Beilisa: Tager, Tsarskaia Rossiia i Delo Beilisa. The Marxist orientation of Tager’s original version is somewhat muted in the shortened English version. 2. Tager, Decay, 48. 3. Ibid., 213. 4. Samuel, Blood Accusation, 166. 5. In Russian murder trials, the family had the right to legal representation on the prosecution team. 6. Samuel, Blood Accusation, 191. 7. Ibid., 216. 8. Ibid., 229. 9. Tager, Decay, 217. 10. Ibid., 218–19. The reference was to the Battle of the Tsushima Straits, which was a Russian military disaster suffered in the Russo‐Japanese War of 1904. 11. Samuel, Blood Accusation, 268. 12. Ibid., 225. 13. Rogger, Jewish Policies and Right‐Wing Politics in Imperial Russia, 55. 14. Ibid., 54. 15. See Langmuir, History, Religion and Antisemitism; idem, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. 16. See the suggestively titled study of the Host desecration theme in Miri Rubin’s Gentile Tales. 17. Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews. See also Dundes, Blood Libel Legend. 18. Katsis, Krovavyi navet, 147. 19. Ibid., 227–29. 20. Ibid., 303. 21. Oboniatel’noe I osiazatel’noe otnoshenie evreev k krovi. 22. Mondry, “Is the End of Censorship in the Former Soviet Union a Good Thing?” 115. 23. 〈www.eastview.com/research‐collections〉. 24. See the still‐useful overview in Grimsted, Archives, 62–67. 25. Dela Beilisa Stenograficheskii otchet. 26. PadenieTsarskogo Rezhima. 27. Krasnyi arkhiv 44 (1931): 85–125; 54–55 (1932): 102–204. 28. Tager, Decay, 32–33, 93–94. 29. Samuel, Blood Accusation, 59. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn KlierJohn Klier is Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London. He is currently completing a book devoted to the anti‐Jewish pogroms in Russia of 1881–82.