Album der Beilis Prozess.

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

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Lot 39

(BEILIS, MENDEL).

Album der Beilis Prozess.

24pp. of illustrations captioned in Russian and Yiddish. Margins neatly repaired, front cover inscribed in Yiddish, “a relic from the destruction of the Riga Ghetto,” original printed wrappers, oblong 16mo

Odessa: 1913

Est: $300 - $400

Portrait album of all principle participants of the notorious Beilis Case. The defendant, a victim of a vicious blood libel charge was found not guilty on the 28th October, 1913. This photographic record was issued immediately following the conclusion of the trial.