The Pogroms in the Ukraine in 1918–21

Nahum Gergel

1928

Much has been written concerning the pogroms of Jews in the Ukraine in 1918–21. Countless reports of the atrocities perpetrated by the bandits in various cities and towns were published in the Jewish press, but no comprehensive study of these events has yet appeared. Nor has there appeared as yet a general statistical survey of the scope of the…

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Nahum Gergel

1887–1931

Born in Ukraine, the historian Nahum Gergel studied in Kiev, and witnessed the pogroms in Ukraine in 1918–1921. He moved to Berlin in 1921 and explored the topic of pogroms. Gergel was a founder of Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniia Evreev (the Society for the Protection of Jewish Health) in Berlin. In the 1920s, he criticized the role of the Yevsektsiya (Jewish Section of the Communist Party) in opposing the emigration of victims of pogroms.

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