A tiszaeszlári ügy ismeretlen hullája. Orvosi szakvélemény a közzétett bonczlelet alapján. (The unknown corpse of the Tiszaeszlár case. Medical opinion based on the published autopsy report.)
Budapest: Zilahy Samuel, 1882. first edition. In original paper. 38 p. Small tear on the spine. In very good condition.
The Tiszaeszlár Blood Libel (1882) is history’s first formal prosecution for blood libel and the first ritual murder trial in which forensic medicine and scientific procedures featured prominently in the court’s deliberations.
On April 1, 1882, a 14 years old Christian girl named Eszter Solymosi disappeared in the north-eastern Hungarian village Tiszaeszlár, and a rumor about the rituals murder perpetrated by the Jews started to spread in the village. Somewhat later, already in the summer, a body of a young girl was found in the river at a nearby village which corroborated the talk and led to the accusation, arrest, and imprisonment of thirteen local Jews. Their six-week trial between June 19 and August 3, 1883, covered by the Hungarian and international press, was carried out in a tense atmosphere of antisemitic propaganda and agitation. The height of the procedure, the closing argument of the defense attorney Károly Eötvös on July 30th, was a seven-hour impassioned plea chiefly relied upon the documentation of the repeated forensic examinations and autopsies of Solymosi’s alleged corpse by the different medical teams.
Extremely scarce contemporary edition of medical report of the Tiszaeszlár Affair.
Price: €2,000.00