A Holocaust Before The Holocaust: Elias Tsherikover and the Pogroms in Civil War Ukraine
By Alexander Maro, CJH-NYU Dissertation Completion Fellowship
A Holocaust Before The Holocaust: Elias Tsherikover and the Pogroms in Civil War Ukraine
On a cold winter afternoon in February 1919, several hundred soldiers descended upon the Jewish neighborhoods of the small Ukrainian city of Proskuriv (today Khmel’nyts’kyi, Ukraine). Ten days earlier, Symon Petliura, head of the short-lived Ukrainian People’s Republic, had dispatched to the border city nearly…
