Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Revolutionary Russia
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,2 (2003) 47-93
Keywords:
Abramson, Henry.
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews Historiography
Abstract:
Criticizes the anglophone National Ukrainian historiography (Hunczak, Bilinsky, Lysiak-Rudnitsky, etc.) for attempts to whitewash the Ukrainian Directory, and Petlyura personally, of responsibility for the pogroms perpetrated by Petlyura's army in 1919. Among the main rhetorical means used by historians to exonerate the Directory are: the thesis of undue involvement of Jews with Bolshevism, broad national autonomy rights granted to the Jews by the Directory, and statements made by some prominent Jews in support of the Directory and its policies. Shows that many anti-Jewish actions of the Nationalist Ukrainians, including the Proskurov (now Khmelnytskyi) pogrom, have nothing to do with "Jewish Bolshevism" and were motivated by sheer antisemitism. Criticizes Henry Abramson, who claims to have achieved a synthesis of "Ukrainian" and "Jewish" historiographies, as well as the Russian historian Sergei Pavlyuchenkov, who developed theses on "Jewish Bolshevism" and "revenge of the Ukrainians" (i.e. pogroms) in the crudest form. Pp. 94-100 contain a response by Henry Abramson.
Description / Table of Contents:
Abramson, Henry. Well - yes, a new historiographical synthesis! A response to Lars Fischer. Ibid. 94-100.
DOI:
10.1080/09546540308575772
DOI:
10.1080/09546540308575773
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