Blood Libel: The Life and Memory of Mendel Beilis: Includes: Beilis's Memoir, The Story of My Sufferings; and "Pulitzer Plagiarism: What Bernard ... Fixer Owes to the Memoir of Mendel Beilis" - Softcover

Beilis, Mendel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466295902 ISBN 13: 9781466295902

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

One of the great trials of the twentieth century was the 1913 blood-libel trial of Mendel Beilis in Czarist Russia. Beilis, a Jew, was arrested in 1911 by the Czarist secret police and accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy to use his blood in baking matzah for Passover. Beilis was jailed for over two years, under horrible conditions, while awaiting trial. He heroically resisted all pressure to implicate himself or other Jews. In 1913, after a dramatic trial that riveted the Jewish people and much of the rest of the world, Beilis was acquitted by an all-Christian jury. Blood Libel: The Life and Memory of Mendel Beilis includes the gripping memoir of Mendel Beilis, in its first complete English translation. Also included is an essay claiming that Bernard Malamud plagiarized from Beilis’s memoir in writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Fixer.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466295902
• ISBN 13: 9781466295902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Beilis Jay, Garber Jeremy Simcha, Stein Mark S.