Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis [Russian]

By: Weinberg, Robert

The book examines the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Jewish manager of a brick factory in Kyiv, who was arrested in 1911 for the ritual murder (popularly known as blood libel) of Andrei Iushchinskii, a Christian teenager. Beilis languished in jail for over two years as government officials conspired to frame him. By the time a jury exonerated Beilis in 1913, his trial had become a cause c l bre around the world. Weinberg has assembled a set of documents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Russian
• ISBN: 1644692821
• ISBN13: 9781644692820
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bibliorossica
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"