“What! Still Alive?!” Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming. By Monika Rice. Syracuse: Modern Jewish History. Syracuse University Press, 2017. xii, 254 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00, hard bound. $29.95, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (01) ◽  
pp. 236-237
Author(s):  
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Slavic Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Abramson

The experience of Ukrainian Jewry from 1917 to 1920 is a paradox in modern Jewish history. At the same moment that the leaders of the Ukrainian revolutionary movement extended unprecedented civil rights to Ukrainian Jews, pogromists operating in the name of that same movement brutally terrorized hundreds of Jewish communities with violence and robbery. This strange incongruity has not been satisfactorily addressed; studies of the period have either concentrated on the pogroms or focused on Jewish socialists in Ukrainian politics. Linguistic barriers and subsequent developments, notably the 1926 assassination of Symon Petliura, have further polarized an already dichotomous history. This article attempts to synthesize these two trends.


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