Background
Beilis, Mendel was born in 1874.
Beilis, Mendel was born in 1874.
Junior manager of a brick factory in Kiev. Became the victim of an attempt by anti-Semitic circles to revive the medieval blood ritual accusation against Jews. Accused of the murder of a young boy, Andrei Iushchinskii, found with multiple stab-wounds.
The Beilis trial in Kiev, 1913, attracted the best defence lawyers of the time (Maklakov, Gruzenberg, Kistiakovskii). The jury, composed of local peasants, found the accused not guilty.