Pathe brothers footage of Mendel Beilis

Identifier
irn1004115
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.474.1
  • RG-60.4611
Dates
1 Jan 1913 - 31 Dec 1913
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)

Scope and Content

Russian intertitles. Excerpts from a Pathe brothers film about the 1913 trial of Menachem Mendel Beilis, who was accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy (blood libel). This trial received worldwide attention and ended with Beilis' acquittal by an all-Christian jury. Shots of the house where Beilis and his family lived when he was arrested. Panning view of the court house where Beilis stood trial. Beilis' wife and his three children exit a building and smile at the camera. They pose against a wooden fence. Portrait of Beilis.

Subjects

  • TRIALS
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • JEWS
  • SOVIET UNION
  • ANTISEMITISM

Places

  • Kyiv (Kiev), Soviet Union
  • , Ukraine

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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