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The transcript compiles a series of alleged ritual murder cases and accompanying commentary stretching from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, presenting a continuous thread of accusations against Jews in various European locales and times.
- 1663, Kakao, Poland: Rabbi Matatia Kallahora was believed to have murdered a gentile child for his Jewish occult rights; he was tried, convicted, and executed.
- 1669, near Metz, France: writes doctor Dahl, the Jew Levi kidnapped a baby, later found dead in the forest; the guilty man was put to death. The case details are described in a small French book, A Summary of the Trial Against the Jews in Metz in 1670.
- 1619, Belarus: Jews reportedly murdered a young child named Gavril in a ritualistic fashion; in 1997, Belarusian television produced a documentary about the murder.
- 1753, Markova, Vonitsa (in the area of present-day Greece/Ukraine borderlands): Gittomura promulgated on Friday, April 20, 1753; in the village of Markova, Vonitsa, Jews allegedly called three-year-old Stefan Struditsky and carried him away.
- On Sunday, the Jews gathered in a house, blindfolded the child, closed his mouth with pincers, and then, while holding the child in a tub, pricked him from all sides with sharp nails, moving him to extract as much blood as possible. After the child’s death, the corpse was carried to a forest and found the next day. By obvious evidence, the Jewesses Brine and Frutza, without torment, confessed to involvement; their husbands were exposed by them. Other men were implicated and subjected to torture; these others confessed and detailed the crime, and the Jews involved were executed. A picture of the corpse was drawn, showing the pricked body, kept safe with the archbishop of Lvov.
- 1791, Tasnad, Hungary: Jews were accused of ritually murdering a gentile boy; one of the Jews’ children admitted having seen the event.
- 1797, Gelats, Romania: a child was allegedly ritually murdered by Jews.
- 19th century: explorer and linguist Sir Richard Francis Burton wrote a manuscript called Human Sacrifice Amongst the Sephardim or Eastern Jews. Some of his manuscript was obtained by Jews and published as The Jew, The Gypsy, and El Islam. In this book, Burton notes that in 1825, the Jews of Beirut made a way with Fatala Sayyid, an Alpine Mohammedan.
- 1829, Hama: the Jews of Hama murdered a Mohammedan girl and were expelled from the city.
- 1839, Beirut: a Jewish-owned flask of blood passed through the customs house of Beirut.
- 1840, Damascus: one of the most notorious modern ritual murders occurred when a Catholic priest named Father Thomas was ritually murdered. Burton’s original manuscript described the investigation; notes used in The Jew, The Gypsy, and El Islam did not include full details.
- The New York Herald (04/06/1850) reported the case under the title Mysteries of the Talmud, Terrible Murder in the East, describing the murder of Father Thomas and the trial of those involved, including claims that blood was used to moisten holy unleavened bread. Manuscripts of the original trial are said to be sealed by French and Austrian councils; Mustafa Talas, with a doctorate in history, translated transcripts from France into English in a book called Mazo of Sion, which is being made into a movie. Talas describes the investigation, including confrontations about blood and the Talmud.
- Jonathan Frankel wrote The Damascus Affair to counter Talas’s book; Frankel’s work is suggested to reveal less than Talas’s, potentially to conceal the truth of the event.
- Early 20th century aftermath: two people independently guided investigators to the remains of Father Thomas discovered in a sewer behind a rabbi’s home.
- 1850s–1900s: references to subsequent stories of Jewish ritual murder in various contexts continue, including the implication of a universal sensationalism and the alleged practice used to undermine Christianity or to achieve occult aims.
- 1911, Kiev, Russia: a highly publicized case of Andrej Yushinsky, an innocent young child killed for occult rights; Menachem Mendel Baylis was accused; extensive international involvement and allegations of jury manipulation, witnesses killed, and evidence destroyed; Baylis was freed by a simple majority verdict (six of twelve jurors), with later claims of corruption and a “kangaroo court” linked to the Bolshevik era.
- John Grant, US consul in Odessa, reported the jury verdict; Baylis allegedly killed by fanatical Jews; evidence pointed to the crime occurring inside a synagogue at the Jewish-owned Seitzew factory. A 13-wound pattern on the head was cited as symbolic of ritual acts, with a referenced line of analysis connecting Sephirothic symbolism to the wounds.
- Vasily Rosenov (Rosanoff) and others connected to Kabbalistic interpretation, including the concept of Echad, and the Shin letter as a symbol within the wounds, was discussed in supporting material.
- Postscript: Zamoslovsky, the prosecuting attorney, wrote The Murder of Andrei Yushinsky; the Bolshevik revolution followed; Zamoslavsky was murdered for exposing the facts, and his book was classified until 1997 to suppress the truth of the matter.