Sholem Schwarzbard
Russo-French anarchist poet and assassin (1886–1938)
Sholem Schwarzbard
Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard (Russian: Самуил Исаакович Шварцбурд, romanized: Samuil Isaakovich Shvartsburd; Yiddish: שלום שװאַרצבאָרד; French: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Bessarabian-born Russian-French Yiddish poet. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a communist and anarchist, and is known for organising Jewish community defense against pogroms in the pre-First World War era and the Russian Civil War era in Ukraine, and for the assassination of Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura in 1926. He wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes (English: The Dreamer).
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