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

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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

Pierre Birnbaum with Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)

192 pages hardcover 2008

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In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphaël Lévy, a French Jew, was convicted, tortured, and executed for an act he did not commit, a fiction deriving from med...

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