Di Geshichte fun meyne Leyden [“The Story of My Sufferings”].

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL.

Di Geshichte fun meyne Leyden [“The Story of My Sufferings”].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Frontispiece portrait, beneath which is an autograph signed inscription from Beilis. Extensively illustrated. pp. 263. Original pictorial boards, worn and shaken. Sm. folio.

New York: for the Mendel Beilis Publishing Co. 1925

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

Mendel Beilis (1874-1934) was a victim of an infamous, vicious blood libel charge that brought world-wide approbrium upon the justice system of Russia when he was brought to trial accused of ritual murder. Upon Beilis’s acqitatal on the 28th October, 1913 he left Russia and moved with his family to Palestine. In 1920 he settled in the United States.