The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Sholem Schwarzbard 1926-1927: A Selection of Documents

by David Engel

English summary: In May 1926, in Paris, a Jewish emigre watchmaker from Ukraine named Scholem Schwarzbard shot and killed the former president of the Ukrainian National Republic, Symon Petliura. Seventeen months later Schwarzbard was exonerated by a Paris court, even though he confessed to the crime and pleaded no mitigating circumstances. The assassination and trial, in which the murders of many thousands of Jews in Ukraine in 1919 became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3525310277
• ISBN13: 9783525310274
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"