M. Tcherikover
Mar 22 2007 11:45
hi
an oft-cited source, used to refute the claims of anti-semitism of the Makhnovists, is the jewish historian M. Tcherikover, quoted in Voline's Unknown Revolution.
what i'd like to know is if anyone has information about him, if there are any websites which give a biography of him, if anybody knows if any of his writings have been published on the web...etc? and even if i could perhaps get the title of a book or article or whatever he's done (even though i doubt i'd be able to find it, you never know). i'm basically just interested in learning more about him, and i'm having trouble finding anything.
Mar 22 2007 16:27
#2
I wasn't able to find anything on M.Tcherikower except references to Voline. the confusion comes in from the intial Voline used. The chaps name was
Elias Tcherikower.
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/library/index.php?tid=45&aid=240
Mar 23 2007 00:29
#3
thanks, you two!
Mar 23 2007 12:31
#4
Tcherikover, Elias, THE EARLY JEWISH LABOR MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, translated and edited by Aaron Antonovsky (New York: YIVO 1961)
I haven't seen this book yet, but it's available.
I see he's refered to as a Bundist
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Jewish_Labor_Union) I'm curious as to how much mention the anarchists are given in his book. He was cited in Avrich's "Anarchist Portraits" as a source on the early days Jewish anarchist movement in the US.
I'm going to see if i can locate a cheap or free copy og the Tcherikover book.
Mar 23 2007 12:34
#5
Deleted. Rolled everthing into above comment
Apr 3 2007 14:55
#6
Who the hell are the Petlurists and the Greens?
Apr 3 2007 16:26
#7
Big Jack McTussoch wrote:
Who the hell are the Petlurists
Ukrainian nationalists, had a German sponsored Independant Ukranian government until 1922 or so.
Quote:
and the Greens?
I think the Social-Revolutionary Party. perhaps only the left-SRs
Apr 3 2007 17:33
#8
The Greens were unaffilitated to any particular party or tendency. They were Ukranian peasants for the most part, who disliked the Germans, the Whites, and the Bolsheviks but who were not revolutionaries. More opportunist than not, one of their main leaders (ataman) was Grigoriev, whom Makhno and Karetnik executed at a congress of the two insurgent armies because of his pogroms (particularly at Ekaterinoslav).
Tcherikower was a Jewish historian who worked almost exclusively at YIVO, the Yiddish Institute connected with New York University. YIVO is still in existence but I think it's no longer affiliated with NYU. The archives referred to by Voline are available to interested parties (it's the Tcherikower Archive #21). Tcherikower was NOT a revolutionary, and so had no particular axe to grind; he documented (among other things) the various forms Jew-hatred took over the years, paying close attention to the way it was used by Czarist authorities in the Russian Empire--hence his interest in how it played out after the destruction of Czarism. He documented the prevalence of Jew-hatred among Ukrainian nationalists, Ukrainian insurgents (Makhnovists and others), and of course the Red Army. Pogroms perpetrated by all groups were investigated with equal vigor. His inescapable conclusion is that every group operating in the Ukraine from 1917-1921 murdered Jews, but that there was never any pogrom that took place at the hands of the Makhnovists who were directly under Makhno's (or his General Staff's) control. In other words, pogroms were never a policy of the Makhnovists, unlike the Petlurists, the Greens, the Whites, and yes, the Reds.