Word: beiliss
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. This fictional version of the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case-the Beiliss trial-becomes a vehicle for Malamud's probing analysis of the modern individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...misses by very little, however. Malamud's novel is a fictional version of the Beiliss Case in Kiev, 1911, in which a Jew was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child and of milking his blood for the purpose of making Passover matzos. The incident, followed by an obscene wave of antiSemitism, was documented in a bleak narrative by Maurice Samuel in Blood Accusation, published this year. Malamud coincidentally worked on the same gruesome subject, but he has gone beyond journalistic intention...
...superpatriotic society of prerevolutionary Russia resembling in many ways the Ku Klux Klan.* Mendel Beiliss was at length exonerated, but not before his show trial had served its purpose. He died, at 60, in obscurity in New York...