Mendel Beilis -- a contemporary document

I found this posted on the Online Books page this morning; it went online last night. You can read it online; if you belong to Hathi Trust member organizations you can print and download it. I'd love to have a download but I don't want to jeopardize your membership or privileges.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cr60954140&view=1up&seq=6

Rabbi Harry Mayer published this in 1913, just after the trial ended. One of the first things in it is a detailed history of the 1840 Damascus case that Pranaitis referred to on Day 28 (IIRC). 

Notice that the first two cases are not ritual murder in the sense that was used at the Beilis trial. The first two cases involved adults, not children.

The German work that Rabbi Mayer has is probably Johann Eisenmenger's work, which Justinas Pranaitis copied for his thesis (rejected by the Russian diocese of the Catholic church). Pranaitis came from a German-speaking part of Lithuania. It was proven at trial that he never learned any of what Eisenmenger said; the prosecution had to ask leading questions and sometimes Pranaitis even answered those wrong. 

http://pajheil.blogspot.com/2016/12/fact-checking-torah-sources.html

My take on the trial is here. There are short items about it as well as a translation of the transcript.

https://pajheil.blogspot.com/p/mendel-beilis.html

Now for a final chilling note. The current "adenochrome" conspiracy theory about the COVID vaccine is the same wording as the blood libel -- torturing children to obtain something from them. The people promoting this conspiracy theory -- like Qanon and possibly OANN before it deleted the article -- are fronts for Putin outside Russia. Government officials are promoting the lie. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-qanon-became-obsessed-with-adrenochrome-an-imaginary-drug-hollywood-is-harvesting-from-kids?source=articles&via=rss

We know how this works. It only takes a few shifts in wording, and Putin is now attacking the Jews, something he has held off on because, worshipper of Hitler that he is, he knows Hitler should have won the war before wasting so much of his logistics material on genocide. Yet Putin is waging genocide and committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine -- site of the Beilis trial and the Babi Yar massacre -- and he is getting dumped keyn ahora.