Menahem Mendel Beilis
Russian Jew accused of ritual murder (1874–1934) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Menahem Mendel Beilis (sometimes spelled Beiliss; Yiddish: מנחם מענדל בייליס, Russian: Менахем Мендель Бейлис; 1874 – 7 July 1934)[1] was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or the "Beilis affair". Although Beilis was eventually acquitted after a lengthy process, the legal process sparked international criticism of antisemitism in the Russian Empire.
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Menahem Mendel Beilis | |
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Born | 1874 (1874) |
Died | July 7, 1934(1934-07-07) (aged 59–60) |
Resting place | Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, New York |
Nationality | Russian |
Criminal charge | Ritual murder |
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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.