Front cover of The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson, featuring a misty forest landscape and serif title typography.
Copyright page showing first edition publication details for The Accusation by Edward Berenson, copyright 2019, W. W. Norton & Company.
Title page of The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson, published by W. W. Norton & Company.
Back cover of The Accusation with critical praise from Steven J. Zipperstein, Cynthia Ozick, Hasia R. Diner, and Thane Rosenbaum.
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Front cover of The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson, featuring a misty forest landscape and serif title typography.Copyright page showing first edition publication details for The Accusation by Edward Berenson, copyright 2019, W. W. Norton & Company.Title page of The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town by Edward Berenson, published by W. W. Norton & Company.Back cover of The Accusation with critical praise from Steven J. Zipperstein, Cynthia Ozick, Hasia R. Diner, and Thane Rosenbaum.

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Author: Edward Berenson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 2019
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 9780393249422
Pages: 352
Condition: Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine dust jacket. Clean, tight, and well-preserved. No markings or writing. Jacket is crisp and intact.brodart.

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A gripping work of historical scholarship, The Accusation examines a little-known but deeply disturbing episode in early twentieth-century America, when an ancient antisemitic myth—the blood libel—reemerged in the town of Massena, New York.

Edward Berenson, a distinguished historian of modern Europe, traces how medieval falsehoods about Jewish ritual murder resurfaced in a modern American context, revealing unsettling continuities between the Old World and the New. Drawing on archival research, cultural history, and close narrative analysis, Berenson shows how fear, misinformation, and political tension allowed prejudice to flourish even in a nation that prides itself on tolerance.

Both a powerful case study and a broader meditation on antisemitism, The Accusation is essential reading for anyone interested in American history, Jewish studies, and the persistence of dangerous myths in modern society.