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The Beilis Case: Anti-Semitism and Politics in the Reign of Nicholas II

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The Beilis Case — a charge of ritual murder brought against an obscure Jewish clerk in July 1911 and tried before a Kiev jury in September 1913 — has more than once been called Russia’s Dreyfus Affair).1 As a shorthand summary, the comparison serves well enough. In both instances an innocent nonentity was plucked out of obscurity to become the object of a contest whose larger implications, while they agitated politics and opinion, escaped the victim or left him indifferent. Beyond this, points of difference loom larger than similarities.

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Rogger, H. (1986). The Beilis Case: Anti-Semitism and Politics in the Reign of Nicholas II. In: Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06568-4_3

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