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

Auction 63 · Lot 211

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

Estimate
$800–$1,200
Hammer price
$1,100

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

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 illustrated album highlighting the horrific results following the vicious pogroms meted upon many 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.
pp. 136. Loose in later boards retaining original pictorial front cover. Folio.
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