Menahem Mendel Beilis | |
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מנחם מענדל בייליס | |
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| Born | 1874 |
| Died | July 7, 1934 (aged 59–60) |
| Resting place | Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, New York |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Criminal charge | Ritual murder |
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Menahem Mendel Beilis[a] (1874 – July 7, 1934; sometimes spelled Beiliss)[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.
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.
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- ^ The top of his gravestone says "Martyr: 1862–1934".