Hebrew manuscript. Single sheet, honoring the names of 67 Jews from the town of Buki (Ukraine) slain in pogroms.
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 12
(UKRAINE).
Hebrew manuscript. Single sheet, honoring the names of 67 Jews from the town of Buki (Ukraine) slain in pogroms.
Buki (Buky), Ukraine: 1922
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $1,400
This important and sorrowful historical artifact, represents communal reaction to the wave of pogroms wrought upon the Jewish population of Ukraine by the White Volunteer Army and by the Cossacks during the summer of 1919.
In all untold tens of thousands of Jews were massacred in hundreds of individual pogroms. Only those killed (‘by the sword and in horrible atrocities’ as stated here) are listed here. The many raped and injured, property destroyed and stolen, frightened hearts and broken spirits can hardly be adequately conveyed.
At its height, Buky’s Jewish population consisted of 2