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

BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL.

for the Mendel Beilis Publishing Co.

New York

1925

FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait, beneath which is an autograph signed inscription from Beilis. Extensively illustrated.

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.