Offers a historical perspective on the anti-Semitism behind the way in which three Jews were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I: Dreyfus of treason in France; Beilis of ritual murder in Russia; and Frank of the murder of a young girl in the United States.
Three Jews, Alfred Dreyfus, Mendel Beilis, and Leo Frank, were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I--Dreyfus of treason, Beilis of ritual murder, and Frank of murder in pursuit of perverse sexual desires. In reviewing the three affairs, this study explores the nature of modern anti-Semitism and the ways that politicians in the generation before World War I attempted to use hatred of Jews as a political device to mobilize the masses.
