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Hardcover. Zustand: g+ to vg-. First edition. Folio. [342] 68pp. Bound in 3/4 black buckram over beige buckram boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The contents of this single scarce volume provide the most reliable primary source and contemporary transcript of the infamous anti-Semitic Tiszaeszlár blood libel trial of 1883. On April 1st, 1882, in the Hungarian village of Tiszaeszlár, a 14 year old Christian girl named Eszter Solymosi disappear while out on an errand. Shockingly soon after here disappearance, and a fruitless search effort, rumors began to spread that members of the local Jewish community had murdered her and used her blood in rituals for the upcoming Passover holiday (a classic anti-Semitic trope for centuries). This accusation led to the arrested of 13 Jews, as the criminal legal proceedings and investigations commenced. In June, the drowned body of a 14-year old girl who many had identified as Eszter Solymosi, and wearing clothes identified as hers, washed up on the banks of the Tisza river, in a nearby town. This lead to ludicrous accusations of a further Jewish conspiracy to hide their crimes. After much back and forth, and many complications, the trial commencing in late June of the following year, marking the first formal legal prosecution of such a blood libel case in European history. All of these prolonged investigations and the ensuing trial sent Hungarian society into hysteria and upheaval. The criminal trial was held between June and October of 1883, and took place amidst a tense atmosphere of anti-Semitic propaganda and agitation. The most striking and powerful moments of the trial came during defense counsel Karoly Eotvos's impassioned closing arguments, which notably lasted seven hours and relied on the most up to date and modern forensic investigative techniques of the the time. The case ultimately ended on August 3rd, resulting in the acquittal of all defendants, and the ruling that the testimony of the principal witnesses for the prosecution, Jewish brothers 5 year old Samuel, and 14 year old Moric Scharf, had been coerced. Published in the nearby city of Nyíregyháza, Hungary, Elek Joba's daily bulletin, records the transcript and proceedings of the trial from June 19th- August 3rd 1883, and is revelatory in its unbiased, objective and reliable reporting, sticking solely to the facts. This is impressive considering the social atmosphere under which much of the media, press and general Hungarian public were operating at the time. The paper was published on each day of the trial, with shorthand courtroom reports, edited, set, and published multiple times per day. From the fifth issue onward new bulletins were issued in the form of supplementary sections of two or four pages in length, without full titled headpieces, relying on simple one line headers, stating the issue numbers along the very top of the margin of the page. The closing arguments are only very briefly summarized in final issue of this periodical. The full content of these arguments was published separately in the 68-page publication, which has been bound-in to this volume. Text throughout printed in Hungarian in a two-column format. Binding with some minor to light staining and rippling at the bottom of the front cover. Front cover lightly bowed. Interior with age toning, and some light closed tears to pages, mostly in the margins. Fist text page has been reinforced along the gutter with scotch tape. Pages throughout this volume including both the unpaginated bulletin section as well as the paginated final section have received a continuous pagination throughout in red pen in the upper corners, from a previous owner. Pages throughout slightly brittle to one degree or another. Book block tight overall. Binding in very good-, interior in good+ to very good- condition overall. Extremely scarce. [WITH] Maroon textured buckram slipcase. 3/4 decorative cloth over period decorative paper covered boards, with a printed white paper label pasted on the spine. An additional volume c.

In somewhat later half cloth. With the formerly unrecorded, green, printed wrappers of the "Debrecen-edition" mounted on front panel. Possessor's inscription on front panel (Miklós Preiser). [2 (title page of the 2nd part)] (340 [of 342]) p.; [3]-68 p. Contemporary, semiofficial transcript of the entire process of the anti-Jewish, anti-Semite trial of the Tiszaeszlár Blood Libel; the most reliable primary source of the trial. The Tiszaeszlár Blood Libel was an accusation of Jewish ritual murder in the Hungarian village of Tiszaeszlár. On April 1, 1882 a 14 years old Christian girl named Eszter Solymosi disappeared. The rumor started to spread in the village that the Jews killed her to use her blood for the rituals of the approaching Passover. The accusation led to the arrest and imprisonment of thirteen local Jews, and a six-week trial between June 19 and August 3, 1883, which is known the first formal prosecution in Europe for blood libel. The course of the trial was carried out in an atmosphere made tense by antisemitic propaganda and agitation. The height of the trial took place on July 30th, the closing argument of the defense counsel Károly Eötvös, a seven hour impassioned plea relied on forensic medicine. The case resulted with the acquittal and release of the accused Jews on the 3rd of August. Elek Jóba's Tisza-Eszlár Bulletin was an unbiased, objective and reliable source of the trial, restricted itself only to the facts, which in itself was a statement among the ongoing hysterical circumstances. The paper was published on each day of the trial. The shorthand reports recorded in the courtroom were briefly edited, set and published more than once a day, and from the fifth issue on, the Bulletin was annexed with one to three, two to four-page sections, depending on how much of the editing and printing was done. Because of the haste only the first eight numbers had nameplates, the rest of the issues titled in the folio line. The slightly edited closing arguments were published separately in a 68-page extra brochure in the same format, with a separate title page (here bound to the front). Eötvös' closing argument, the longest, could be found on pp. 35-57. Tisza-eszlár Bulletin is an extremely scarce and highly important primary source of this major, internationally followed, modern antisemitic affair, the first formal prosecution for blood libel, and the first ritual murder trial in which forensic medicine and scientific procedure featured prominently in the court's deliberations. Provenance: Miklós Preiser (supposedly:) 1879-1939; Hungarian banker and book collector. WorldCat locates only one copy in institutional holdings (in Hungarian). Pages yellowed, fragile, occasionally chipped due to the acidic paper. Title page of the second part bound to the front. Wanting the last annex (to issue no. 29; 2 pages). Pages numbered in pencil. Few notes in pencil. Title page restored with some loss. Closed tears in the first part, restored with Japanese paper tape (p.156, 201-212 , 305), p. 205 open tear with some loss to the text at the upper edge. Missing upper corners to pp. 65-72 (1st part) with unimportant loss to the headers, and in the 2nd part: p. 15, 22 (tiny loss of text). Brown stains to pp. 17-20 (2nd part). Otherwise in fine condition. In somewhat later half cloth. With the formerly unrecorded, green, printed wrappers of the "Debrecen-edition" mounted on front panel. Possessor's inscription on front panel (Miklós Preiser).