In May 1926, a Jewish emigré from Ukraine in Paris, Scholem Schwarzbard, shot and killed the former president of the Ukrainian National Republic, Symon Petliura, whom he blamed for pogroms that killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews in 1919. The assassination and the trial, which ended 1927 with Schwarzbard’s acquittal, had a lasting influence on relations between Jews and Ukrainians, Europe's largest stateless minorities. The volume presents 76 documents, many newly discovered, in French, German, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, and English. The critical edition is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentaries and translations which illuminate the events and their significance for different groups from different perspectives.
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