Sholem Schwarzbard

Sholem Schwarzbard
שלום שװאַרצבאָרד
Born	Shulem Itskovich Shvartsburd (1886-08-18)18 August 1886 Izmail, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	3 March 1938(1938-03-03) (aged 51) Cape Town, South Africa
Resting place	32°21′1.44″N 34°52′19.56″E / 32.3504000°N 34.8721000°E / 32.3504000; 34.8721000
Nationality	Bessarabian Jew
Other names	Samuel Schwarzbard
Known for	Schwartzbard trial
Movement	Anarchism
Criminal charge	Assassination of Symon Petliura
Criminal status	Acquitted
Spouse	Anna Render
Parent(s)	Isaak Shvartsburd Khaye Vaysberger
Military career
Allegiance	French Republic Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR
Service	French Army Red Guards Red Army
Years of service	1914–1919
Unit	French Foreign Legion 363rd Infantry Regiment (France) Petrograd Red Guards Cavalry group of Tiraspol squad International brigade (Red Army, 1919)
Battles / wars	World War I Second Battle of Artois Battle of the Somme Russian Civil War Ukrainian–Soviet War Capture of Kyiv
Awards	Croix de guerre (1917)

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 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).