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

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

(RUSSIA).

Place

Moscow

Publication

1926

Description

Issued by Z. S. Ostrovsky on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Aid to Victims of Pogrom. Russian text. Numerous photographic illustrations.

summary

A detailed album highlighting the horrific results following the 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. See Z. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union 1881 to the Present (1988) pp. 97-108.

pp. 136. Browned, light wear to some corners, title-page creased, inscription on introductory page. Contemporary boards retaining original pictorial front cover, gutter split, rubbed. Folio.

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