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Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard (Russian: Самуил Исаакович Шварцбурд, romanized: Samuil Isaakovich Shvartsburd; Yiddish: שלום שװאַרצבאָרד; French: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Russian-French Yiddish poet.
The Schwartzbard trial was a sensational 1927 French murder trial in which Samuel "Sholem" Schwartzbard was accused of murdering the Ukrainian immigrant and head of the Ukrainian government-in-exile Symon Petliura.
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 ...
Sholem Schwarzbard: Biography of a Jewish Assassin Citation Johnson, Kelly. 2012. Sholem Schwarzbard: Biography of a Jewish Assassin. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
Eight days after its beginning—October 26, 1927—after jury deliberations lasting a mere thirty-five minutes, Schwartzbard was acquitted with loud congratulations and cries of “Long live France!” erupting in the courtroom.
Dec 26, 2022 · Sholem Schwarzbard was an anarchist Yiddish-language poet from Ukraine. In 1926, he assassinated Ukrainian military commander Symon Petliura in revenge for deadly pogroms carried out by Petliura's armies in the Russian Civil War — and was found not guilty by a jury of his peers.
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The thesis represents the first complete academic biography of a Jewish clockmaker, warrior poet and Anarchist named Sholem Schwarzbard. Schwarzbard's experience was both typical and unique for a Jewish man of his era.