4. The Pshitik pogrom
- Yankev Leshchinsky (author)
- Robert Brym (translator)
- Eli Jany (translator)
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| Title | 4. The Pshitik pogrom |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Yankev Leshchinsky (author) |
| Robert Brym (translator) | |
| Eli Jany (translator) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0342.04 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0342/chapters/10.11647/obp.0342.04 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Yankev Leshchinsky |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2024-09-16 |
| Long abstract | Phshitik was the site of one of the four major Polish pogroms in the period 1935–37. The pogrom took place on 9 March 1936. Witnessing rising tensions between Jews and Poles, and anticipating trouble, some Jews had formed an armed self-defence group three months earlier. During the pogrom, violence was visited on both Jews and Poles at an annual fair in the town square and near a bridge on the other side of the nearby Radomka River. Two Jews and one Pole were killed and dozens of people were seriously injured. At the subsequent trial, thirty-nine Poles were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to one year and eleven Jews were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to eight years, the longest prison term going to a Jew who fired a revolver from the window of his house, killing a Pole. No Poles were sentenced for beating two Jews to death. Leshchinsky recounts the worst attacks on Jews and the outrage of Polish Jewry regarding the trial’s outcome, and he praises Jewish self-defence efforts. He describes the trial proceedings in detail, concluding that the court was strongly biased against the Jewish defendants, essentially viewing the events of 9 March as a Jewish pogrom against Poles. 5 June, 19 June, 24 June, and 1 July 1936. |
| Page range | pp. 89–106 |
| Print length | 18 pages |
| Language | English (Translated_into) |
| Yiddish (Original) |
Yankev Leshchinsky
(author)Robert Brym
(translator)Robert Brym, FRSC, is SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and an Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest works include Robert Brym and Randal Schnoor, eds, The Ever-Dying People? Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023) and “Jews and Israel 2024: Canadian Attitudes, Jewish Perceptions,” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études Juives Canadiennes (38: 2024), 6–89. For downloads of Brym’s published work, visit https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym
Eli Jany
(translator)Eli Jany is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has translated poems by Sarah Reisen (In geveb, 12 May 2020, https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/three-poems-reisen) and, with Robert Brym, co-translated volume 1 of The Last Years of Polish Jewry and “Jewish Economic Life in Yiddish Literature: Yitskhok Ber Levinzon and Yisroel Aksenfeld,” East European Jewish Affairs (53, 1: 2024), both by Yankev Leshchinsky.