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Symon Petlyura, (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. One of the founders of the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party in 1905, Petlyura published two socialist weekly ...

Indeed, in 1926, Scholem Schwarzbard, a Jewish anarchist, killed the UPR’s leader Symon Petliura in a Paris street in revenge for the pogroms.

He held Symon Petliura, who was the head of the Directorate of the Ukrainian National Republic, responsible for their deaths. According to his autobiography, after hearing the news that Petliura had relocated to Paris in 1924, Schwartzbard became distraught and started plotting Petliura's assassination.

Country for the first time observes a minute of silence in memory of Symon Petliura, a 1920s statesman killed by a Russia-born Jew. By JTA 31 May 2016, 8:42 pm 4.

The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Scholem Schwarzbard 1926–1927: A Selection of Documents. Ed. David Engel . Archive of Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 2. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. 482 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. €130.00, hard bound. | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Home > Journals

Statesman and publicist; supreme commander of the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic and president of the Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic. He entered the Poltava Theological Seminary in 1895 but was expelled in 1901 for belonging to a clandestine Ukrainian hromada (see Hromadas ), which he had joined in 1898.

It is the 25th of May, 1926 and Symon Petliura, the president in exile of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, is taking a stroll through Paris. At roughly 2.12pm, he passes by the Gilbert Bookstore ...

Among the latter was ex-Ukrainian leader Petliura, who was tracked down and assassinated in 1926 by the Yiddish poet Sholem Schwarzbard, resulting in a trial that same year that became a cause ...