The pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 : prelude to the Holocaust / by Nokhem Shtif ; translated and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shtif, Nokhem, author.

Contributor:

Wolfthal, Maurice, translator, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Ukraine.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions.

Ukraine--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Ukraine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Open Book Publishers 2019

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless and destitute, including orphaned children. A number of groups were responsible for these brutal attacks, including the Volunteer Army, a faction of the Russian White Army. The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 is a vivid and horrifying account of the atrocities committed by the Volunteer Army, written by Nokhem Shtif, an eminent Yiddish linguist and social activist who joined the relief efforts on behalf of the pogrom survivors in Kiev. Shtif’s testimony, published in 1923, was born from his encounters there and from the weighty archive of documentation amassed by the relief workers. This was one of the earliest efforts to systematically record human rights atrocities on a mass scale. Originally written in Yiddish and here skillfully translated and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal, The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 brings to light a terrible and historically neglected series of persecutions that foreshadowed the Holocaust by twenty years. It is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of human rights, Jewish studies, Russian and Soviet studies, and Ukraine studies.

Contents:

Preface / Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

Introduction / Maurice Wolfthal

Further reading

The pogroms in Ukraine: The period of the volunteer army / Nokhem Shtif

Preface

The situation of the Jews in Ukraine before the arrival of Denikin's volunteer army

Before the pogroms and during the pogroms

The volunteer army's own style of pogrom

The causes of the pogroms. Pogroms as part of the military and political program. The connection to the high command

List of Jewish communities that were destroyed

Sources

Index.

Notes:

CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9791036544255

9781783747467

1783747463

OCLC:

1163808773

Publisher Number:

10.11647/OBP.0176

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access