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

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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

1p., verso taped along margins and folds, 4to

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