Witness History: Witness Archive 2016 - The Beilis Case: an Anti-Jewish Trial

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In 1913, Mendel Beilis, a Jew from Kiev, was accused of a "ritual murder". The trial became a focus of anti-Semitic rhetoric in imperial Russia and attracted attention around the world. Dina Newman reports.

Photo: Mendel Beilis in 1913. Credit: Topfoto.

Published on Friday, 22nd July 2016.

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