Elias Tcherikower

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Elias Tcherikower ( Ilya Cerikover and other spellings; born August 1 jul. / 13 August 1881 greg. In Poltava , Russian Empire ; died 28. August 1943 in New York City ) was a Paris-based historian whose life's work researching the There was anti-Semitism in Ukraine.

Life

Elias Tcherikower studied at the art academy in Odessa from 1898 to 1904 and was involved in socialist Zionist circles . He continued his studies in St. Petersburg and was sentenced to one year imprisonment in Poltava for his political activities. Tcherikower wrote for the press and contributed to the Russian-Jewish encyclopedia. From 1910 to 1914 he was editor of the educational magazine Chewra mfize haskalah . Saul M. Ginsburg wrote the foreword to Tcherikower's history of the Jewish communities (in Russian). In 1914 he visited Palestine and Egypt.

From 1915 to 1917 he lived in New York and returned to Kiev after the February Revolution in 1917 . There he recorded the massacres and pogroms of the Jews of Ukraine and transferred a large archive of documents to Berlin in 1921, where he was one of the founders of the Association for the East Jewish Historical Archive. The first volume in a history of the pogrom movement appeared in 1923 with a foreword by Simon Dubnow .

In 1925 he was one of the founding members of the Jewish Scientific Institute YIVO in Vilnius . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he emigrated to Paris and fled to the USA in 1940.

According to Dubnow, in 1935 he finished an extensive study of the various versions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , entitled Les 'Protocoles', leur origine et leur diffusion , which, however, went unpublished. There should be a copy in the Vienna library.

His archive was saved from France to the USA in 1940 and is now in the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) in New York.

Fonts (selection)

  • Antisemitizm i pogromy na Ukraině 1917-1918. (to the geshikhṭe fun uḳrainish-yidishe batsihungen; Miṭ a haḳdama fun S. Dubnow ). Eastern Jew. Histor. Archive, Berlin 1923.
  • The Geshikhṭe fun of the pogrom movement in Uḳraine 1917–1921. 1923.

literature

  • Cherikov, Elijahu. In: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume 6. Chernivtsi 1935, p. 145.
  • Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International”. Chronos, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.comlink.de/cl-hh/m.blumentritt/agr269s.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.comlink.de/cl-hh/m.blumentritt/agr269s.htm#A73 Semen Dubnov, Novejsaja istorija evrejskogo naroda ot francuzskoj revoljucii do nasich dnej, Vol. 3, Riga 1938, p. 469
  3. ↑ http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1997_num_38_3_2491
personal data
SURNAME Tcherikower, Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerikover, Ilya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Poltava
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1943
Place of death New York City