Blood libel; the Damascus affair of 1840. (reprint, 2004)

by Florence, Ronald

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Book desription: Other Press LLC, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Damascus had it all: open markets, active trade, multiple ethnicities and religions, a cosmopolitan air, and a fairly stable government. Or so it seemed. Within a matter of weeks it also had a missing monk, madness, mayhem and murder. Historical author Florence traces what happened when a Capuchin monk and his servant went missing, and the authorities (local as well as French) managed to accuse or convict almost every prominent member of the town's Jewish community. This being Damascus and the nineteenth century every power with a bite into the Middle East became involved, and the media in France and England cried out for revenge for the spilling of Christian blood for what they assumed as unholy uses. Florence describes the backroom diplomacy and desperate measures by Britain, Austria and the international Jewish community, who united for the first time in centuries to try to spare the accused. (©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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