Zhabotinsky and Petliura: What happened on September 4, 1921, at the XII Zionist Congress and why a Jewish gendarmerie was created to protect the Jews of Ukraine
On September 4, 1921, in the midst of the XII Zionist Congress in Carlsbad, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky signed an agreement to create a Jewish gendarmerie in Ukraine. Symon Petliura was not at the negotiating table: the document was concluded by Jabotinsky and the head of the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in Czechoslovakia, … Read more