The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town by Helmut Walser Smith
The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
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Helmut Walser Smith
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The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Helmut Walser Smith

270 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction history true crime mysterious reflective slow-paced
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In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel cha...

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