Evreiskie Pogromy [“Jewish Massacre”] 1918-1921.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 206
(RUSSIA).

Evreiskie Pogromy [“Jewish Massacre”] 1918-1921.

Numerous photographic illustrations. Russian text. pp. 136. Brittle, with loss to some corners. Original pictorial boards laid down, edges chipped. Folio.

Moscow: 1926

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
A detailed album highlighting the horrific results of a wave of ferocious pogroms afflicted upon Jewish communities in the Ukraine including Skvira (Skver), Poltava, Uman, Kiev and Yelizavetgrad during the Civil War years of 1918-21. The text has a distinctly Nationalist element, portraying Jews saved from the attacking native population by the Red Army. The publication was issued by Z. S. Ostrovsky on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Aid to Victims of Pogrom. See Z. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union 1881 to the Present (1988) pp. 97-108.