[correspondence of Spirik and expertise for the Talmud trail in Petrovgrad]

[correspondence of Spirik and expertise for the Talmud trail in Petrovgrad] 

[correspondence of Spirik and expertise for the Talmud trail in Petrovgrad] 

1 electronic resource (180 pages) 

The file is about the Talmud trial in Petrovgrad that took place in 1938. The publishers of Erwache, an NS Paper in Yugoslavia were accused of affronts against the Jewish religion and the Talmud. The main accused, Spirik turned to Jonak von Freyenwald who wrote a expertise under the pseudonym Tibor Erdely. The file contains letters of Spririk to Freyenwald and as Freyenwald suggested to Fleischhauer. The file contains the German translation of the accusation, German translation of quotes from the Hungarian Talmud that Spirik used in court. The file contains an excerpt from the a book of Rabbi Bloch from 1882 about an allegedly similar trial against Holubek sent by Fleischhauer to Spirik. The file also contains comments to the quotes of the Hungarian Talmud by von Freyenwald who strongly suggests not to use the quotes in court. He suggests to turn to Luzsénszky instead. The file also contains the Talmud expertise of Freyenwald (Erdely) with an itroduction, a general part and the chapters about Non-Jews and Christians in the Talmud and the chapters The Non-Jew before the Jewish judge, Permission of cheating towards the Non-Jew, False Oath, Ban of Birth assistance, Adultery with a Non-Jewish Woman, Murder, The Jewish concept of God and a conclusion. There are also several editions of Erwache, that were published between 1936 and 1938 in the folder.