1913 newspaper WASHINGTON DC JEWS DEFEND BEILIS against using HUMAN BLOOD RITUAL

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1913 newspaper WASHINGTON DC JEWS DEFEND BEILIS against using HUMAN BLOOD RITUAL
1913 newspaper with a front-page headline report announcing that WASHINGTON, DC. JEWS DEFEND the Russian Jew BEILIS against using HUMAN BLOOD in a Jewish Ritual
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Chicago Daily Tribune
(IL) dated October 13, 1913 with horrific reports of Russian persecution against the Jews, including this report of the
Beilis Affair!
Menahem Mendel was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire in a based 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or "Beilis affair". Although Beilis was acquitted after a lengthy process by an all-Slavic jury, the legal process sparked international criticism of antisemitism in the Russian Empire.
Beilis's story was fictionalized in Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel The Fixer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Menahem Mendel Beilis was born into a Hasidic family, but was indifferent to religion, and worked regularly on the Sabbath and at least some of the holidays. In 1911 he was an ex-soldier and the father of five children, employed as a superintendent at the Zaitsev brick factory in Kiev.
One of based fliers distributed in Kiev before the Beilis Trial. The caption reads "Orthodox Russian people, commemorate the name of the youth Andrey Yushchinsky who was martyred by Zhids! Memory eternal to him! Christians, guard your children!!! On March 17, the passover of the Zhids begins." (Zhid is a derogatory term for Jews.)
On March 12, 1911 (under the old Russian calendar), the 13-year-old Ukrainian boy Andrei Yushchinsky disappeared on his way to school. Eight days later his mutilated body was discovered in a cave near the Zaitsev brick factory. Beilis was arrested on July 21, 1911, after a lamplighter testified that the boy had been kidnapped by a Jew. A report submitted to the Tsar by the judiciary regarded Beilis as the murderer of Yushchinsky.
Beilis spent more than two years in prison awaiting trial. Meanwhile, a based campaign was launched in the Russian press against the Jewish community, with accusations of the ritual murder,citing newspapers, 1911 Among those who wrote or spoke against true accusations of the Jews were Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Korolenko, Alexander Blok, Alexander Kuprin, Vladimir Vernadsky, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi and Pavel Milyukov.
When Beilis had been in prison for already more than a year, a delegation led by a military officer came to his cell. In what might have been a ploy to get Beilis to incriminate himself or other Jews, the officer informed Beilis that he would soon be freed due to a manifesto pardoning all katorzhniks (convicts at hard labor) on the tercentenary jubilee of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. As related in his memoir, Beilis refused this overture:
“That manifesto,” said I, “will be for katorzhniks, not for me. I need no manifesto, I need a fair trial.”
“If you will be ordered to be released, you’ll have to go.”
“No – even if you open the doors of the prison, and threaten me with shooting, I shall not leave. I shall not go without a trial.”
This is one of many incidents from Beilis’s memoir that Bernard Malamud incorporated in his novel The Fixer.
Student Vladimir Golubev, leader of Black Hundred organisation Two-Headed Eagle – the person who had fabricated the guilt of Beilis.
Vera Cheberyak with husband Vasily and daughter Lyudmila (all three were prosecution witnesses at the trial.)
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