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

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Lot 201
(RUSSIA).

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

Issued by Z. S. Ostrovsky on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Aid to Victims of Pogrom. Russian text. Numerous photographic illustrations. pp. 136. Stencil title page, few repaired tears. Modern boards. Folio.

Moscow: 1926

Est: $600 - $900
A detailed illustrated album highlighting the horrific effects following the vicious pogroms meted upon the Jewish communities in the Ukraine during the Civil War of 1918-21. Includes Skvira (Skver), Poltava, Uman, Kiev, Yelizavetgrad, etc. See Z. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union 1881 to the Present (1988) pp. 97-108.