[PDF.61yn] The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

[PDF.xi86] The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

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 | #115959 in Books |  2003-11-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x.80 x5.50l,.50 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Reads like a novel|By Rita Campbell|The book primarily deals with, or focuses on the unsolved murder of an Ernst Winter in Konitz, Germany, a place that actually doesn't exist anymore, at least not in the way it did at all in the 19th century, when the murder occurred. After WWI it became part of Poland. It shows how the town fell to pieces, egged on by anti-Semites, mostly jou|From Publishers Weekly|Two residents out for a stroll in Konitz, Germany, in March 1900, discovered a carefully tied package in a nearby lake. Its contents, the upper torso of a missing youth, set off a chain of events that brought national attention to an unrem

One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.

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 charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an absorbing narrative, Helmut Walser Smith reconst...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town   |  Helmut Walser Smith. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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