Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets by Elissa Bemporad Yiddish Learning edited by award-winning authors and

edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert

published in Yiddish in 1864

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Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets by Elissa Bemporad Yiddish Learning edited by award-winning authors andListen to our podcast with author Elissa Bemporad. This book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism pogroms and blood libels in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s. Closely intertwined in history and memory, pogroms and blood libels were and are considered central to the Jewish experience in late Tsarist Russia, the only country on earth with large scale anti Jewish violence in the early twentieth