Eugene M. Avrutin is Associate Professor of History and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia and the coeditor of Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation.

• Contents PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 Fedor Goes for a WalkChapter 2 Small-Town LifeChapter 3 Tsar Alexander Pays a VisitChapter 4 The Confrontations Chapter 5 GrievancesChapter 6 The Investigation WidensChapter 7 Boundaries of the LawEpilogue Appendix: Jewish prisoners held in the town of VelizhNotesBibliographyIndex

The Velizh case undoubtedly deserves this rich and detailed analysis. Avrutin inte-grates this Russian instance of a blood libel in the long trajectory of such accusations and de?nes its speci?c character with great expertise. The reader will gratefully acknowledge the outstanding amount of research that went into this volume. It will be of interest to an academic audience interested in Russian, legal, and administrative history and to those members of the general public with a keen interest in Jewish history in eastern Europe, and in the history of anti-Jewish prejudice.

Eugene M. Avrutin is Associate Professor of History and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia and the coeditor of Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation.

• Contents PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 Fedor Goes for a WalkChapter 2 Small-Town LifeChapter 3 Tsar Alexander Pays a VisitChapter 4 The Confrontations Chapter 5 GrievancesChapter 6 The Investigation WidensChapter 7 Boundaries of the LawEpilogue Appendix: Jewish prisoners held in the town of VelizhNotesBibliographyIndex

The Velizh case undoubtedly deserves this rich and detailed analysis. Avrutin inte-grates this Russian instance of a blood libel in the long trajectory of such accusations and de?nes its speci?c character with great expertise. The reader will gratefully acknowledge the outstanding amount of research that went into this volume. It will be of interest to an academic audience interested in Russian, legal, and administrative history and to those members of the general public with a keen interest in Jewish history in eastern Europe, and in the history of anti-Jewish prejudice.

Eugene M. Avrutin is Associate Professor of History and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia and the coeditor of Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation.

• Contents PrefaceAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 Fedor Goes for a WalkChapter 2 Small-Town LifeChapter 3 Tsar Alexander Pays a VisitChapter 4 The Confrontations Chapter 5 GrievancesChapter 6 The Investigation WidensChapter 7 Boundaries of the LawEpilogue Appendix: Jewish prisoners held in the town of VelizhNotesBibliographyIndex

The Velizh case undoubtedly deserves this rich and detailed analysis. Avrutin inte-grates this Russian instance of a blood libel in the long trajectory of such accusations and de?nes its speci?c character with great expertise. The reader will gratefully acknowledge the outstanding amount of research that went into this volume. It will be of interest to an academic audience interested in Russian, legal, and administrative history and to those members of the general public with a keen interest in Jewish history in eastern Europe, and in the history of anti-Jewish prejudice.