SHOLEM SCHWARZBARD
Samuel “Sholem” Schwarzbard (18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Russian-French Yiddish poet, a communist and anarchist. He wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes.
Schwarzbard is known for organizing Jewish community defense against pogroms and for the assassination of Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura in 1926.
Sholom Schwarzburd. An article in a Jewish newspaper in Yiddish "Shot at Petliura".
Excerpt from the German press about
the Schwarzburd trial. Photo of Sholom Schwarzburd (left) and Petlyura (right).
Sholom Schwartzburd. The case of the French police.
MY RELATION TO SHOLEM SCHVARZBARD
«Sholom Schwarzburd was the third cousin of my mother, Sarah. And my maternal grandfather, my grandfather Zvi Hirsh Modik, was the second cousin of Sholom’s mother, Chai Weisberger. He was born in Balti, a watchmaker and a poet. And he shot Petlyura in Paris for the bloody Jewish pogroms in Ukraine and for the murder of 15 people in our family during the 1919 Proskurov pogrom»… my grandfather said.
“The AVENGER” by Michael Finkel
