Book/Printed Material The pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 : prelude to the Holocaust

Title

• The pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 : prelude to the Holocaust

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: Prelude to the Holocaust 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."--Publisher's website.

Names

• Shṭif, Naḥum, 1879-1933, author.
• Wolfthal, Maurice, translator, editor.
• Open Book Publishers, Publisher.

Created / Published

• Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2019.
• ©2019

Contents

• Preface / Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe -- Introduction / Maurice Wolfthal -- Further Reading -- The Pogroms in Ukraine: The Period of the Volunteer Army / Nokhem Shtif -- Preface ; I. The Situation of the Jews in Ukraine before the Arrival of Denikin's Volunteer Army ; II. Before the Pogroms and During the Pogroms ; III. The Volunteer Army's Own Style of Pogrom ; IV. 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.

Headings

• -  Revolution--(Ukraine :--1917-1921)
• -  Jews--Persecutions
• -  Jews--Ukraine
• -  Pogroms--Ukraine
• -  Ukraine--History--Revolution, 1917-1921

Notes

• -  Available through Open Book Publishers.
• -  First published in Yiddish as: Title Pogromen in Uḳraine : di tsayṭ fun der frayṿiliger armey. Berlin : Ṿosṭoḳ, 1923.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-13), bibliographical references in the footnotes, sources (pages 93-95) and index.
• -  Text translated from the Yiddish.
• -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-04-01)

Medium

• 1 online resource (118 pages) : 1 illustration, 1 color facsimile, 1 map

Call Number/Physical Location

• D639.J4

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019452966

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019452966

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019452966

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