"Mendel Beilis' blood-libel trial in Kiev 1913" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Nov 2019 10:12 p.m. PST |
"My grandfather told me this story many times in the 1950s. Grandpa was only an adolescent in 1913, at a time when persecution of Jews had never abated. But he believed that immigration visas suddenly opened up for Russian Jews, in a window of opportunity during and after the Beilis trial. What the records do show is that by 1917 the Jewish Emigration Society organised and managed the outflow of endless thousands of Jewish emigres to destinations abroad, before the Society was disbanded in 1917. Due to Expulsion Edicts, pogroms and revolution, as well as the Beilis Trial…."
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