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Symon Petlyura, in full Symon Vasylevych Petlyura, Petlyura also spelled Petliura, (born May 10, 1879, Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died May 25, 1926, Paris, France), socialist leader of Ukraine’s unsuccessful fight for independence following the Russian revolutions of 1917.

Indeed, in 1926, Scholem Schwarzbard, a Jewish anarchist, killed the UPR’s leader Symon Petliura in a Paris street in revenge for the pogroms. The trial that followed became a cause celebre, one ...

Symon Petliura, a 1920s Ukrainian statesman blamed for the murder of 50,000 Jewish compatriots (YouTube screenshot) Amid a divisive debate in Ukraine on state honors for nationalists viewed as ...

On May 25, 1926, in the heart of Paris, the Ukrainian Jew Scholem Schwarzbard murdered the Ukrainian political leader Symon Petliura in broad daylight, eliciting a frenzied domino effect throughout the Ukrainian and Jewish exile communities. These events impinged on, and even shaped, Ukrainian-Jewish relations for decades.

Stepan Bandera collaborated with the Nazis, Symon Petliura is linked to the massacre of as many as 100,000 Jews, and Ivan Rohach was the editor of an anti-Semitic newspaper—yet the three of them ...