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On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis's trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg's account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the tsa

Antisemitism --- Blood accusation --- Trials (Murder) --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Philosemitism --- Blood libel --- Murder, Ritual --- Ritual murder --- Blood --- Human sacrifice --- Jews --- Murder trials --- Murder --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Persecutions --- Beĭlis, Mendelʹ, --- Beilis, Mendel, --- Beilis, Menahem Mendel, --- Beiliss, Mendel, --- Beylis, Mendel, --- Бейлис, Мендель, --- בייליס, מנדל --- בייליס, מנדל, --- בייליס, מענדעל --- בייליס, מענדעל, --- בײליס, מנדל, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Beĭlis, Mendel,