Anarchist political assassination can anchor a lasting civil-rights institution

Evidence

In 1928 Schwarzbard, a Ukrainian- Jewish anarchist, shot dead Simon Petlioura, former head of the nationalist government of Ukraine, as he came out of a restaurant in Paris’s Left Bank, on the grounds that Petlioura had been responsible for pogroms. … More recently, Schwarzbard has been the object of similar philosemitic attention from the French Left, since in 2010 his unpublished autobiographical writings were finally published in French translation as Mémoires d’un anarchiste juif, by the leftist publisher Syllepse in its neo-­Bundist series Yiddishland. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1350