Blood Libel: The Life and Memory of Mendel Beilis
Beilis, Mendel
ISBN 10: 1466295902 ISBN 13: 9781466295902
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2011
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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.
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Title: Blood Libel: The Life and Memory of Mendel ...
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishi
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good