Eugene AvrutinEvgeny Avrutin is Professor of Modern European Jewish History and the Tobor Family Scholar in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author and co-editor of several volumes, including Jews and the Imperial tate: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010) and Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond: New Histories of an Old Accusation (2017). The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Read More Read Less