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Unmasking Jack the Ripper
"Perhaps the best Jack the Ripper documentary produced in recent years." North American and European DVD formats both available.
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George G. Harrap & Co. 1966 (paperback)
Kramers 1965 (Dutch, softcover)
Robin Odell
Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction
George G. Harrap & Co. LTD., 1965
275pp., illus., bib. index.

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One of the founding texts in the study. Though difficult to find today, Odell's book was one of the first well-researched Ripper books to hit the market. His theory was that a shochet (a Jewish ritual slaughterer of animals) was responsible for the murders.

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Related pages:
  Jews
       Dissertations: Jacob the Ripper? 
       Dissertations: Responses to the Ripper Murders: Letters to Old Jewry 
       Press Reports: City Press - 13 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Denton Journal - 10 November 1888 
       Press Reports: East London Observer - 15 September 1888 
       Press Reports: Echo - 11 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Echo - 17 September 1888 
       Press Reports: Evening News - 10 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Evening News - 11 September 1888 
       Press Reports: Evening News - 6 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Jewish Chronicle 
       Press Reports: Jewish Chronicle - 11 March 1910 
       Press Reports: Jewish Chronicle - 12 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Jewish Chronicle - 16 November 1888 
       Press Reports: Jewish Chronicle - 22 March 1889 
       Press Reports: Jewish Chronicle - 4 March 1910 
       Press Reports: Manchester Guardian - 13 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Manchester Guardian - 4 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Pall Mall Gazette - 15 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 11 September 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 12 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 13 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 14 September 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 17 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 18 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 26 September 1888 
       Press Reports: Star - 31 October 1888 
  Robin Odell
       Dissertations: Jack in the Box 
       Dissertations: Jack the Redeemer 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - Teenage Jack the Rippe... 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - The Slaughterman 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict 
       Ripper Media: Ripperology