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The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Scholem Schwarzbard 1926–1927A : Selection of Documents

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On 25 May 1926, at approximately 2:15 in the afternoon, on the corner of rue Racine and boulevard Saint-Michel in the Latin Quarter of Paris, a nat-uralized immigrant Jewish watchmaker of Ukrainian origin named Scholem Schwarzbard (1886–1938) shot and killed a prominent emigré Ukrainian journalist, poet, and political leader, Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (1879–1926). The assassin was immediately taken into custody and confessed to his crime. Indeed, he could hardly have done otherwise, for dozens of on-lookers had witnessed the deed. He expressed no remorse for his action, nor did he plead diminished capacity. Yet although at first glance his culpabil-ity appeared beyond doubt, the examining magistrate to whom the case was assigned investigated for a full seventeen months before binding the assas-sin over for trial.1 And when the trial, which lasted for eight days, from 18 through 26 October 1927, came to a close, the French jury pronounced the defendant not guilty.2

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944 ASS

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: ., 2016

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English

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978-3-666-31027-0

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944

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text

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computer

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online resource

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France--history

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Penyunting, David Engel

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maya

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