(JTA) — A century ago, passages from the Talmud were translated into Russian to be used as evidence in the anti-Semitic show trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Jew charged with — and eventually acquitted of – murdering a Christian boy. The prosecution in that 1915 trial, which was decried… Read more »
Once a prop for anti-Semites, the Talmud makes a comeback in Russia
The cover of a new Russian translation of the Talmud (Courtesy of Knizhniki publishing house)
