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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