[Rarebooks] FS - Slaughter of Ukrainian Jews 1919

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*HEIFETZ, Elias. /THE SLAUGHTER OF THE JEWS IN THE UKRAINE IN 1919/*/./ 
Published by Thomas Seltzer, New York City. 1921.1st edition, thick 8vo, 
pp. 408. Spine a bit sunned and spine ends and corners rubbed. Small 
closed tear to top of spine. Boards a bit scuffed. Binding slightly 
shaken. Contents clean and tight. A good copy.

At the conclusion of World War One, there were over 1.5 millions Jews 
living in the Ukraine. They occupied prominent positions in the 
Bolshevik party, the fact of which the competing forces in the unstable 
political situation in neighboring Russia (mainly the White and 
Nationalist forces) used to suggest that Jews were planning to take over 
the government of the Ukraine. Various forces then combined (including 
the Ukrainian peasants, whose long-ingrained anti-semitism was inflamed 
by this prospect) which resulted in a wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian 
Jews. An estimated 180,000 to 200,000 were murdered. Most government 
officials at the time (including those in the West) attempted to 
suppress details of the pogroms, but so egregious were the events that 
news eventually leaked out and investigations were begun. Heifetz was 
the chairman of the All Ukrainian Relief Committee for the Victims of 
Pogroms, under the auspices of the Red Cross. His committee conducted a 
detailed investigation, interviewing survivors, and visiting the scene 
of the more extensive exterminations. This book is a summary of the 
committee's reports. It is horrific reading.

Price: $350.00.

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