Beschreibung:

A singular archive of great historical significance containing 60 letters written by Russian and Polish rabbis and rebbes protesting the Beilis Trial in the years 1911-1913. The protest letters were sent to Rabbi Yehuda LeibTsirelson, Rabbi of Kishinev, during the months of Iyar-Sivan 1911, in the framework of Rabbi Tsirelson's initiative to publish a rabbinical protest in the Russian general media. Among the rabbis who wrote the letters: Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Av Beit-Din of Slutsk; Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira, Av Beit-Din of Krynki; Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Feivelson, Av Beit-Din of Kupiškis; Rebbe Avraham Weinberg of Slonim; Rabbi Zvi Yehezkel Michelson, Av Beit-Din of Płońsk; Rabbi Dov Menachem Regensberg, Av Beit-Din of Zambrów; Rebbe Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn of Babruysk; Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz Av Beit-Din of Minsk; Rabbi Yisrael Ortinberg of Berdychiv; Rabbi Aharon, son of Rabbi Shmuel Kaminker, Av Beit-Din of Zborov; Rabbi Chaim Uri, son of Bezalel HaCohen of Vilna; Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fein Rabbi of Ashmyany ,and others. . The Beilis Trial – The Twentieth Century Blood Libel