(BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL).
Attorney Dimitri Grigorivich Barsky (Chief defense lawyer for M.M. Beilis ...

(BEILIS, MENACHEM MENDEL).
Attorney Dimitri Grigorivich Barsky (Chief defense lawyer for M.M. Beilis, 1871-1958). Autograph Manuscript written in Russian. Memoirs and Notes.


Detailing his account of the events surrounding the Beilis trial and related events.
c. 130 pages. English translation.
1930's


A remarkable firsthand account of one of the most infamous trials in Czarist Russian history. Mendel Beilis (1874-1934) was a victim of a vicious blood-libel charge that brought world-wide approbrium upon the Russian system of justice after he was brought to trial falsely accused of ritual murder. Upon Beilis’s acquittal in 1913 he left Russia and moved with his family to Palestine. In 1920 he settled in the United States. Amidst this archive, in addition to relating the Beilis narrative, Barsky recounts a relatively far lesser known event, in which hardly four weeks after Beilis was acquitted, anti-Semites sought to stir up a new blood libel involving the corpse of a young boy found in Fastiv, near Kiev. A Gentile family claimed that this was the body of their missing son, subsequent to which a Jew named Ephraim Pasikov was taken into custody. However this time, prior to trial, the police conducted a thorough investigation. The ‘missing’ peasant child was soon found and Pasikov was absolved of all guilt. After successfully defending his client in the Beilis trial, Dimitri Grigorivich Barsky was called to serve as the head of Kiev’s Palace of Justice. However, he was removed from his position when the Bolsheviks seized control and eventually migrated to the United States. He died there and was buried in Chicago. See: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Григорович-Барский, _Дмитрий_Николаевич. See also Lot 126.