- Andrei Yushchinsky
Andrei Yushchinsky (
1898 -March 12 ? 1911 O.S.), alternatively: Yustshinsky, Yuschinski, etc. ( _ru. Андрей Ющинский) was a Ukrainian boy whose death set offritual murder accusations againstMenahem Mendel Beilis , followed by a trial (known as the "Beilis Trial" or "Beilis Affair") that sparked international criticism of the antisemitic policies of theRussian Empire .On
March 12 ,1911 , Yushchinsky disappeared on his way to school. Eight days later his mutilated body was discovered in a cave near a local brick factory.A lamplighter testified that the boy had been kidnapped by a
Jew and Beilis was arrested on July 21, 1911. A report submitted to the Tsar by the judiciary regarded Beilis as the murderer of Yushchinsky.While Menahem Beilis spent more than two years in prison awaiting trial, a vicious antisemitic campaign was launched in the Russian press against the Jewish community, with accusations of the blood libel and
ritual murder . During the trial in 1913, the lamplighter confessed that he had been confused by the secret police. Beilis was acquitted by the all-Christian jury.A later investigation determined that on that tragic morning Andrei Yushchinsky decided to skip school and visit his friend, Zhenya Cheberyak.
Yushchinsky is regarded a saint by many Orthodox Christians. [ru icon [http://www.pravoslavie.by/sootc.asp?id=1384&Session=100 Saints and martyrs. Andrei of Kiev (Yushchinsky)] (pravoslavie.by)]
After the
collapse of the Soviet Union , publications blaming Jews in Yushchinsky's death are abound in Ukraine and Russia. [ru icon [http://kiev1.org/page-1658.html Boy-martyr. March 25 is 95th anniversary of Andrei Yushchinsky's martyrdom] (kiev1.org)] On his grave, a new sign states: "Andrei Yushchinsky, ritually murdered by Jews in 1911." [ru icon [http://www.wcjcc.org/Materials/Networking/Antisemitism.pdf Antisemitism. History and Modernity] Translated and adopted for Russian speakers by Alisa Nagrotsky, WCJCC. (2004 WUJS & WCJCC) pp.44-45]In the March 2006 issue (No. 9/160) of the "Personnel Plus" magazine by
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (commonly abbreviated MAUP), an article "Murder Is Unveiled, the Murderer Is Unknown?" [uk icon [http://www.personal-plus.net/article.php?ida=453 Murder Is Unveiled, the Murderer Is Unknown?] by Yaroslav Oros. "Personnel Plus"] revives false accusations from the Beilis Trial. A week earlier, MAUP leaders visited the grave of Andrei Yushchinsky.Notes
External links
* [http://ldn-knigi.lib.ru/JUDAICA/StenBeil/Beilis_Steno.htm Stenographic report from the trial] . Volumes 1-3
* [http://www.jewukr.org/observer/eo2003/page_show_ru.php?id=1501# Beilis affair: truth and myth] by Feliks Levitas, Mikhail Frenkel ("Jewish Observer", Jewish Confederation of Ukraine) April 12, 2006
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