Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis

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181 Alexander I, Tsar, 112, 125, 155 Alexander II, Tsar, 11, 18 Ancona (Italy), 76 Anglo-Palestine Bank, 69 Antisemitism, 2, 18, 21, 26–27, 37, 64– 66, 70–72, 83; modern, 7–8, 81–82; official tsarist policies of, 12–16, 62 Appeals Court, Kiev, 67 Armenians, 81 Austria, 16 Autocracy, 23, 24, 37, 50, 71, 81–82; criticism of, 82–83, 115–116, 125–126; defense of, 36–37, 46, 52, 66, 82–83, 89–91, 118–119; reputation of, 62; treatment of Jews by, 12–16, 62 Autopsy, 19, 21–22, 33, 60, 84–85, 122, 172n14 Baronius, 77 Beaulieu, Leroy, 100 Beilis, Menachem Mendel, 2, 34, 35, 47, 68–69, 101–102, 162; arrest of, 36, 37–38, 82, 101, 156; death of, 69–70; defense of, 47–49, 51, 59–60, 64, 157–160; emigration of, 69; portrayal of, 12, 52, 53, 54; public interest in, 15, 40, 44, 68, 116, 119, 123–124; recollections of, 103–104, 165–168; religiousness of, 61–62; son of, 37, 131, 141; trial of, see Beilis trial. See also Beilis Affair; Beilis case Beilis Affair, 2, 8, 9, 16, 83, 116, 123; context of, 11; interpretations of, 12–13, 80; significance of, 14–15, 70–72. See also Beilis case Beilis case, 2–3, 7, 13–15, 27, 53–54, 61– 63, 73, 81–83, 96, 113, 117; evidence in, 30, 36–39, 41, 46, 56–58, 64, 103, 106–107, 125, 159; indictment in, 39, 43, 45, 65, 71, 102–103, 105, 115, 138, 161. See also Beilis Affair; Beilis trial Beilis trial, 14–17, 30–32, 39, 43–65, 115, 166; centenary of, 71; conduct of, 80, 105; context of, 18; outcome of, 65–67, 83, 126, 160, 162–165; and popular culture, 68; and prosecution , 2, 16, 38, 43–50, 53–65, 105, 125, 150, 152–153, 155, 157, 160, 163–164; protests against, 110, 124–126; testimony during, 38, 45–46, 48, 54–57, 59–61, 63–65, 93–99, 107–108, 126–136, 138–153 Bekhterev, Vladimir, 84 Belarus, 9 Belief, popular, 50–51 Bible, 156, 157 Index Page numbers in italics refer to figures. 182 Index Black Hundreds, 11–12, 26–27, 30, 49–50, 103, 116, 118, 156; Kiev, 13; newspapers of, 22–23, 24; threats from, 167 Blood, symbolism of, 8 Blood libel, 2, 8, 22, 24, 40, 43, 64, 110, 117–119; history of, 4–5, 6, 7; myth of, 49–50, 112; Tiszaeszlár, 71; Trent, 5; Velizh, 9, 100. See also Ritual murder Bohemia, 7 Boldyrev, Fyodor A., 49, 56, 58, 65, 67, 96–98, 132–134, 136, 138–145, 148, 151–152, 161–162 Bolsheviks, 70 Brandorf, Nikolai, 30–31 Brazul’-Brushkovskii, Stepan, 41, 57, 58, 113, 144–147, 159 Bribery, 144 Bulgaria, 7 Burglaries, 105, 107 Caiaphus, 89 Cannibalism, Jewish, 4, 88, 116 Caricatures. See Stereotypes, anti-Jewish Catherine the Great, 9 Catholic Church, 16 Catholics, 5, 7, 9, 16, 111 Chapel, 158 Chaplinskii, Georgii G., 13, 26–27, 29–31, 33–38, 40–41, 43, 57, 67, 103, 113, 138, 174n5 Chauvinism, national, 80 Cheberiak, Liudmila (Liuda), 57, 64, 97, 140, 144, 150, 159 Cheberiak, Valia (Valentina), 29, 57, 97, 144, 149, 150, 160 Cheberiak, Vasilii, 39, 64, 141–143, 149, 159; deposition of, 57 Cheberiak, Vera Vladimirovna, 2, 16, 25, 26–35, 39, 41, 43, 46–48, 63–64, 93–94, 106–107, 113, 123, 129, 142, 144–150, 153–155, 174n1, 174n3; apartment of, 2, 56, 59, 63, 66, 93, 96, 98, 107, 137, 140, 149, 154; fate of, 70; testimony against, 95–99, 105; testimony of, 57–59, 138–140, 146, 159–160 Cheberiak, Zhenia (Evgenii), 1, 28–30, 35, 39, 57–59, 64, 107, 127–131, 138– 144, 146, 148–150, 154, 160; death of, 145; testimony of, 93–97 China, 112 Chodoruski, Alan, 77 Christianity, 18, 50, 118; Orthodox, 8 Christians, 75–76, 79, 85, 91–92, 108–112, 125, 153, 168; Orthodox, 7, 9, 10, 85, 88. See also Catholics Circuit Court, Kiev, 30, 38, 101–102, 105 Circumcision, 4, 8, 60 Civil plaintiffs, 48–49, 63, 153 Civil society, 50 Civilization, 100, 109, 110 Clement XIII, Pope, 76 Clement XIV, Pope, 76–78 Coercion, 5, 46 Communion, 4, 111 Confessions, 5, 57, 171n25 Conspiracy, 13, 43, 46, 80–82; world Jewish , 11, 15, 71, 83, 114 Coroner, 21–22, 86. See also Autopsy Courts, 7, 65, 81, 83, 92, 102, 126; adversarial , 14–15, 113, 163; diocesan...