Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiv, 414 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. Examines the trial of Shalom Schwarzbard, held in Paris in October 1927. His trial for the murder of Petlyura (in May 1926) turned out to be not only an investigation of Schwarzbard's personality and motives, but also of the pogroms perpetrated by Petlyura's army in Ukraine in 1919. The prosecution depicted Schwarzbard as a Bolshevik agent or as an insane man, and ascribed the massacres to the anarchy that reigned in Ukraine. The defense attorney argued that Schwarzbard's action was a necessary act of defense against a murderer. Dwells on the pogrom of February 1919 in Proskurov (now Khmelnytskyi), as well as on bloody pogroms in Zhitomir, Ovruch, etc. The main question debated at the trial was to what extent Petlyura was responsible for the crimes committed by his army. States that Petlyura was by far not the only pogromist during the civil war in Ukraine (1918-20): semi-independent chieftains, like Kozyr-Zyrko, Struk, and others were no less brutal murderers of Jews than Petlyura's "generals". The jury and the judge agreed on the full responsibility of Petlyura for the murders, and acquitted Schwarzbard, referring to similar trials in Europe at the time, and to the fact that the independent Ukrainian state of 1918-19 was an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Jewish public opinion worldwide and many leading non-Jewish and Jewish intellectuals supported Schwarzbard, but the major French newspapers supported the prosecution.

Subject

1. Petli︠u︡ra, Symon Vasylʹovych, 1879-1926 > Assassination
2. Shṿartsbard, Shalom, 1886-1938
3. Petli͡ura, Symon Vasylʹovych, 1879-1926
4. Shṿartsbard, Shalom, 1886-1938
5. Petljura, Symon Vasylʹovyč 1879-1926
6. Schwarzbard, Samuel 1886-1938
7. Petliura, Symon Vasyl'ovych, 1879-1926
8. Shvartsbard, Shalom, 1886-1938
9. Jews > Persecutions > Ukraine
10. Assassination
11. Jews > Persecutions
12. Pogrom
13. Juden
14. Mord
15. Jews > Persecutions > Ukraine
16. Ukraine

Contents

1. Chronology of major events -- In the slaughter town -- For the pogroms -- The Meysim -- Deification -- The Palace of Justice -- Jewish provocation -- The League of Human Rights -- The elusive Monsieur Volodine -- Envoy to Bulgaria -- The clans of death -- Order number 131 -- The mobilization of Israel -- We have pleaded too much -- Five questions -- Torrès -- The verdict of civilization -- Simon Petlura -- Afterword: On assassination.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.