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Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (Ukrainian: Си́мон Васи́льович Петлю́ра; Russian: Симон Васильевич Петлюра; 22 May [O.S. 10 May] 1879 – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist.

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 ...

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.

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

“The World Jewish Congress is distressed by the Vinnitsa municipality’s disgraceful and regrettable decision to celebrate the anti-Semitic nationalist leader Symon Petliura as a ‘Defender of Ukraine’ and by Vinnitsa Regional Chairman Valery Korovy’s description of him as an ‘honest man.’ “Petilura was anything but an honest man.

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…

Symon Vasylyovych Petliura was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He became the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army and the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic during Ukraine's short-lived sovereignty in 1918–1921, leading Ukraine's struggle for independence following the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917.