Menahem Mendel Beilis
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Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or the "Beilis affair". Although Beilis was eventually acquitted after a
Portrait of Beilis after his arrest in 1911
Beilis with his family
An antisemitic flier distributed in Kiev before the Beilis Trial. The caption reads "Orthodox Russian people, commemorate the name of the youth Andriy Yushchinskyi who was martyred by Zhids! Memory eternal to him! Christians, guard your children!!! On March 17, the passover of the Zhids [an ethnic slur for Jews] begins."
Student Vladimir Golubev, leader of Two-Headed Eagle, who fabricated the accusation against Beilis
The Fixer (novel)
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The Fixer is a 1966 novel by American writer Bernard Malamud. It won the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction, Malamud's second award, and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, despite not being set in
Menahem Mendel Beilis
…legal process sparked international criticism of antisemitism in the Russian Empire. Beilis' 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. Maurice Samuel's book Blood Accusation: the Strange Case of the…
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