Rare book from a rare printing: Beilis Affair. Bila Tserkva 1914

Rare book from a rare printing: Beilis Affair. Bila Tserkva 1914
An “abbreviated translation of the stenography from the Beilis Affair with an introduction describing in brief the whole legal process brought against Menachem Mendel Beilis in Ukraine, organized chronologically until his acquittal. By Zvi Berls, printed by Progress (Zeev Naskin). 168 pages. Moth holes, stains and light tears. Generally good condition. Menachem Beilis was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or "Beilis affair". Although Beilis was acquitted after a lengthy process by an all-Slavic jury, the legal process sparked international criticism of antisemitism in the Russian Empire. Bila Tserkva—a city located on the Ross River, 84 km south of Kiev, in the Kiev Shebaok region Rayna. Its name in Slavic languages is "white church", and therefore the Jews referred to it as Sde Lavan ("white field"), or antiphrastically as: "Black impurity" (Yiddish: "Schwartze Tuma"). The town had a strong Jewish community since the 16th century, where the Admorian dynasty Leviav [of the Chernobyl race] led by their community stood out. In 1823, a Hebrew printing house was opened in the city, which became known for three Hasidic books, though many years bibliographers did not know of the existence of a printing house here. Later, two other Hebrew books were printed in the city, in two different printing houses, and books from here are considered extremely rare.