The Man Who Meant too Much: Domestic and International Implications of the Beilis Case
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Rupp, Sophie
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
- Abstract
- In Kiev, in 1911, in the weeks before Passover, a man discovered the body of a thirteen-year-old Christian boy, Andrei Iushchinskii, riddled with approximately forty-seven stab wounds.Far right wing organizations and the Russian imperial government saw the murder as an opportunity accuse Kievan Jews of ritual murder. They thought they could use the case to rally the Russian population behind a shared ideology of anti-Semitism, in order to support the decaying empire. Accusations of ritual murder, also known as blood libel, have plagued Jews since the 1100s. These accusations consist of claims that Jews murder Christian children and drain their blood in order to bake their Passover matzo.Under the guidance of Vladimir Golubev, a local leader of the far right-wing group the Double Headed Eagle, and a nineteen-year-old student at the local university, the police arrested Mendel Beilis in the fall of 1911. Beilis was a middle-aged, non-practicing Jew who happened to work at a factory near the cave where the body was found. He had no connection to Iushchinskii, or to the Jewish community in Kiev. My thesis investigates Jewish life in Kiev prior to the case, the role of antisemitism in the case itself, and the response to it in Great Britain and the United States.
- Date of publication
- April 2018
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- Funding: History Department (Boyatt Award), Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
- Advisor
- Cassen, Flora
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Academic concentration
- History
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2018
- Language
- English
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