8vo. Xv, 286 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Trials, murder – Soviet Union; Beilis, Mendel, 1874-1934. “Maurice Samuel was born in Rumania in 1895 and was educated in England. He came to the United States in 1914. He was from 1917 in the American Army in France. Immediately after the war he served as interpreter at the Peace Conference and with the reparations Commissions in Berlin and Vienna, returning to America in 1921... His major interest for nearly fifty years [was] the position of the Jewish people in the Western world... He has concerned himself particularly with the exposition of Jewish values or examinations of the relations between the Jewish and Christian worlds. ”(dust jacket, back flap) Has dust jacket. Very good condition. (MX-23-3), OK 06/12