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Cover title in Yiddish: Schwartzbard
19271751Paris: I. Grodzensky 1927. First edition. Text in French and Yiddish. In publisher’s wrappers bound by string. Cover design by Marc Chagall. Cover and plates are worn at extremities. Cover and some plates damaged at corners and at the string. Two photographic reproductions are loose. Overall in good condition. First edition. Text in French and Yiddish. In publisher’s wrappers bound by string. Cover design by Marc Chagall. 4 text plates and 19 album card plates with mounted photographic reproductions. <p><br /> Scarce book with Chagall’s cover design.<br /> <p><p><br /> With Marc Chagall’s image on the front cover. Before a black background the image features an opened Torah scroll with the inscription of Schwartzbard's name in Hebrew letters an angel with sword flies over the Torah an allusion to Michael the Archangel the advocate of the Jews.<br /> <p><p><br /> A scarce album with pictures of places and portraits of people connected with the Schwartzbard-trial together with short expressions of opinion from prominent intellects as well as brief biographical notes on Schwartzbard and Petliura.<br /> <p><p><br /> Sholom Schwartzbard 1886–1938 was a Russian-born French Yiddish poet and anarchist the assassin of Symon Petliura 1879–1926 head of the Ukrainian government-in-exile in Paris in 1926. Schwartzbard held Petliura responsible for the death of fifteen of his relatives murdered in pogroms during Petliura rule of the Ukrainian National Republic. The number of Jews murdered during the massive 1918–1921 pogroms in Ukraine is estimated to be between 35000 and 50000 and a large percent of the violent attacks were carried out by soldiers under Petliura’s command. The Schwartzbard trial began in mid-October 1927 lasted for eight days in the end it turned on accusations of Petliura's responsibility for the pogroms and eventually Schwarztbard was acquitted. <br /> <p><p><br /> Scarce we could trace only 3 copies in institutional holdings Harvard University Widener Library Cambridge MA USA; NLI Jerusalem; Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Paris.<br /> <p>. [I. Grodzensky] unknown
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