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Tiszaeszlár affair

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “trial that set off anti-semitic agitation in hungary in 1882/83”. Today it says “originally a murder case which was represented in journals as a blood libel that led to a trial that set off an”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Protest by Lajos Kossuth; Scientific reconstruction of the events”.
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Tiszaeszlár affair was originally a murder case which was represented in journals as a blood libel that led to a trial that set off antisemitic agitation in Austria-Hungary in 1882 and 1883. After the disappearance of a local girl, Eszter Solymosi, Jews were accused of murdering and beheading her. A body was found some time later in a river, she having apparently drowned, but the Hungarian Highest Court (Kúria) found that the body was not that of Eszter, but had been dressed in her clothes. A lengthy trial followed, eventually resulting in the acquittal of all the accused.

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “trial that set off anti-semitic agitation in hungary in 1882/83”. Today it says “originally a murder case which was represented in journals as a blood libel that led to a trial that set off an”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Protest by Lajos Kossuth; Scientific reconstruction of the events”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

trial that set off anti-semitic agitation in hungary in 1882/83

Now

originally a murder case which was represented in journals as a blood libel that led to a trial that set off an

Sections that no longer exist

Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 2 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 1,810 characters shorter.

  • Protest by Lajos Kossuth
  • Scientific reconstruction of the events
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