Autograph letter signed, in (rather poor) Yiddish, on headed paper, to Shneur Zalman Pevsner, complaining of bad health and intentions to move from Palestine to America
AUCTION 1 |
Thursday, November 14th,
1996 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Lot 292
BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL (Victim of infamous 1911 blood-libel charge, 1874-1934).
Autograph letter signed, in (rather poor) Yiddish, on headed paper, to Shneur Zalman Pevsner, complaining of bad health and intentions to move from Palestine to America
Jaffa: 5th Nissan, n.y
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $300
Following Beilis’s acquittal of charges of ritual murder, he moved with his family from Russia to Palestine. In 1920 he settled in the United States