Yours Truly Mer with Mer Bailey, April 26, 2026 Hour 1

catcarson: Menahem Mendel Beilis[a] (1874 – July 7, 1934; sometimes spelled Beiliss)[1]was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the “Beilis trial” or the “Beilis affair”.[2] Although Beilis was eventually acquitted after a lengthy process, the legal process sparked international criticism of antisemitism in the Russian Empire.

Beilis’s story was fictionalized in Bernard Malamud’s 1966 novel The Fixer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Maurice Samuel’s book Blood Accusation: the Strange Case of the Beilis Trial, a non-fiction account, was published by Alfred A. Knopf the same year.[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Mendel_Beilis catcarson: On March 12, 1911, a 13-year-old boy named Andriy Yushchinskyi disappeared on his way to school. Eight days later, his mutilated body was discovered in a cave near the Zaitsev brick factory. Beilis was arrested on July 21, 1911, after a lamplighter testified that the boy had been kidnapped by a Jew. A report submitted to Tsar Nicholas II by the judiciary named Beilis as the murderer.[4][6]