Pathe brothers footage of Mendel Beilis
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 ...



