Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (2003) 281-304
Keywords:
Beilis, Mendel,
;
Blood accusation
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Traces the story of the trial, noting that the Russian authorities, encouraged by Tsar Nikolai II, did all they could to secure a guilty verdict: they handpicked the investigator, prosecutor, and judge - all of them known antisemites. Beilis' acquittal in the specific case was, in the end, not important to them; the main thing was to revive the blood libel. The trial attracted widespread attention both in Russia, where liberals like Vladimir Korolenko disputed the blood libel, and abroad. Among Jews, even assimilated Western Jews, it created a sense of solidarity. Subsequently, the blood libel resurfaced in the USSR, post-World-War II Poland, and especially Nazi Germany, but it was a less effective, and less-used tool of antisemitic propaganda than the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and the conspiracy theory. Recently, however, antisemitic publications that accompanied the Beilis trial have been reprinted in Russia.
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