Misplaced Pages

Damascus affair: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactivelyNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 05:15, 26 January 2004 view sourceHumus sapiens (talk | contribs)27,653 edits new stub  Revision as of 05:16, 26 January 2004 view source 158.111.4.26 (talk)No edit summaryNext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
] February. A ] friar and his servant are found dead in ] before Jewish ], and the Turkish governor and the French consul believe the ] accusations. A fake investigation is staged and Solomon Negrin, a Jewish barber, confesses under torture accusing other Jews. Two die under torture, one converts to Islam to escape it. More arrests and atrocities follow, culminating in the seizure of sixty-three Jewish children held as hostages and mob attacks on Jewish communities throughout the ].

Sir ], backed by European influentials (British ], French lawyer Adolphe Cremieux, missonary John Nicolayson, among others), leads a delegation to the ruler of ] ] in ]. He secures the release of the captives and pursuades the ] of ] to issue a ''firman'' (edict) stopping the spread of blood libels in the ].

Revision as of 05:16, 26 January 2004