Biography
Boris Brasol was born in Poltava, Ukraine, Russia, in 1885. His father was the notable homeopath Lev Brasol. After graduation from the law department of St Petersburg University, Brasol served in the Russian Ministry of Justice, where he took part in the prosecution of the Beilis blood libel case. In 1912 he was sent to Lausanne to study forensic science.
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During World War I Brasol held the rank of Lieutenant in the Tsar's army. In 1916 he was recalled from the front and sent to the US to work as a lawyer for an Anglo-Russian purchasing committee. After the October Revolution in Russia Brasol stayed in the US as an emigrant.
Several authors link Brasol's name with the first U. S. edition of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion which was titled "The Protocols and World Revolution, including a Translation and Analysis of the 'Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom'" ( Boston: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers, 1920 ). Brasol pursued a successful career as a literary critic and criminologist and published several books in each of these fields.
He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx) New York.
Some of Brasol papers are preserved in the Library of Congress Manuscript Collection.
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