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Book SynopsisA fascinating investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel and what it reveals about anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.
Trade Review"Two powerful new books show that anti-Semitism acknowledges no time limits and recognises no borders. Edward Berenson’s
The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town is a warning against complacency." -- Jim Crace, Books of the Year 2019 - New Statesman
"Berenson’s skill in this eye-opening and timely book includes weaving into this local story the larger history of the European blood libel, and how it migrated into the New World — in the 1920s it was rife in Montreal." -- Howard Cooper, Year in Review: Books in 2019 - The Jewish Chronicle
"He [Berenson] offers a vivid picture of early twentieth-century America, a time of lynch mobs, urban riots and intolerance towards Jews, Catholics, African Americans and immigrants...
The Accusation is part of a fascinating new wave of the social history of modern antisemitism." -- Times Literary Supplement
