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Elias Tcherikower, Eliahu Tcherikower, Elias Tscherikower, I. M. Cherikover (1881-1943), was a Russian-born Jewish historian of Judaism or the Jewish people. ==Biography== Tcherikower was born and raised in Poltava (Ukraine), in the Russian Empire, where his father was a pioneer of the Hovevei Zion movement.〔"Tcherikower, Elias" (2007). ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', 2nd ed., vol. 19, p. 563. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.〕 He attended gymnasium in Odessa, and went on to university in Saint Petersburg. His participation in the Russian revolutionary movement led to his arrest at a Menshevik meeting during the 1905 revolution,〔Moss, Kenneth B. (2010, October 29). "(Tsherikover, Elye )." ''YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''. Retrieved 2015-07-04.〕 after which he spent a year in prison.〔Karlip, Joshua M. (2008). "Between martyrology and historiography: Elias Tcherikower and the making of a pogrom historian." ''East European Jewish Affairs'', 38(3), p. 257-280. doi: 10.1080/13501670802450863〕 He published his first article – an essay in Russian on the Yiddish writer Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh ("Mendele Moykher Sforim: An attempt at a critical characteristic")〔Karlip, Joshua M. (2013). ''The Tragedy of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe''. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.〕 – in 1905, in the Russian-language Zionist journal ''Evreiskaia zhizn (Jewish life).〔 For the next ten years he wrote mainly in Russian; after 1915 most of his work was in Yiddish.〔Shulman, Elias (1966). Review of ''Di Ukrayner pogromen in yor 1919'', by Elias Tcherikower. ''The Jewish Quarterly Review'', 57(2), p. 159-166.〕 Tcherikower contributed biographies and a variety of other articles to the Russian-language Jewish encyclopedia ''Evreiskaia entsiklopedia''.〔 He was also active in the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia, an educational and civic association founded in 1863; he edited the society's journal〔 and wrote a history of it that appeared in 1913 (''Istoriia obshchestva dlia rasprostraneniia prosveshcheniia mezhdu evreiami v rossii'').〔 During the First World War, Tcherikower spent time in the United States, arriving in New York City in the summer of 1915. There he had contact with the socialist Zionist leader and Yiddish linguist Ber Borochov, who was a childhood friend, and, under Borochov's influence, began to write in Yiddish for socialist- and nationalist-oriented Yiddish journals and newspapers.〔 He returned to Russia sometime after the outbreak of the revolution in 1917, and then in late 1918 moved to Kiev, in the newly independent state of Ukraine. At that time, under the Ukrainian People's Republic, ethnic minorities, including Jews, had been granted a degree of cultural and political autonomy.〔〔Kuznitz, Cecile Esther (2014). ''(YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation )''. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 26, 34.〕 Tcherikower was active at the Folks-Verlag (People's press), one of several Yiddish publishing houses that operated in Kiev around this time. In the spring of 1919 a wave of anti-Jewish violence spread through the Ukraine, including Kiev, and Tcherikower turned his attention to gathering documentation of the events in the Jewish communities, leading the "Editorial Board for Collecting and Investigating Material Pertaining to the Pogroms in the Ukraine."〔Kuznitz (2014), p. 26.〕〔 Among his collaborators were Nokhem Shtif, Jacob Lestschinsky, Jacob Ze'ev Wolf Latzky Bertholdi, and Nokhem Gergel. The archive assembled by these scholars eventually served as the basis of several historical works in Yiddish about the events.〔Kuznitz (2014), p. 26, 35.〕 When the Soviets gained control in the Urkaine in 1921, Tcherikower and other Yiddish activists in Kiev fled the city; he and his wife Riva (Rebecca), taking the archive with them, went first to Moscow and then to Berlin.〔 A significant contingent of Russian Jewish artists and scholars similarly took up residence in Berlin in the early 1920s, including the scholars with whom Tcherikower had worked in Kiev, as well as the esteemed Jewish historian Simon Dubnow, whom Tcherikower regarded as a mentor.〔Kuznitz (2014), p. 35.〕〔 During this period several Yiddish and Hebrew publishing houses were established in Berlin, providing Tcherikower and his colleagues opportunities to publish scholarly works in Yiddish.〔 In August 1925, at a conference held in Berlin, Tcherikower, along with Max Weinreich and Nokhem Shtif, was among the co-founders of the Jewish research institute YIVO, dedicated to East European Jewish history and culture. Although the institute initially had its central office in Berlin, much of its activities were centered in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), which became its official headquarters within the following year.〔Brenner, Michael (1996). ''(The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany )''. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 195-196.〕 Tcherikower became the leader of the Historical Section of the new institute (one of four research divisions), which held its founding meeting on October 31, 1925 at Dubnow's apartment in Berlin.〔Kuznitz (2014), p. 85.〕 In 1926 to 1927 Tcherikower played a key role in the preparation of the defense of Sholom Schwartzbard, who was on trial in Paris for the assassination of the Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura, and who had allegedly acted in retaliation for Petliura's role in the pogroms carried out by Ukrainian forces in 1919, during the Russian Civil War. In this work Tcherikower, assisted by his wife, brought to bear materials in the pogrom-related archive he and his colleagues had assembled.〔〔 Tcherikower is also often remembered for his research on the notorious ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' in the context of the Berne Trial of 1933-1935.〔 He headed a group of historians, including Vladimir Burtsev and Sergei Svatikov, who gathered evidence and gave testimony for the prosecution concerning the fraudulent nature of the ''Protocols''.〔Melamed, Efim (2012). "('Immortalizing the Crime in History ...': The Activities of the Ostjüdisches Historisches Archiv (Kiev – Berlin – Paris, 1920-1940) )." in J. Schulte, O. Tabachnikova, & P. Wagstaff (Eds.), ''The Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937'' (pp. 372-386). Leiden: Brill. p. 380-381.〕 In 1939 Tcherikower, then living in France, co-edited with Yisroel Efroikin the new Yiddish-language journal ''Oyfn sheydveg'' (At the crossroads), with Zelig Kalmanovitch as a major contributor. The three colleagues, who had all advocated for diaspora nationalism and Yiddishism, aimed to reevaluate their cultural and political views on the future of the Jewish people.〔 When the Germans invaded France in June 1940, Tcherikower and his wife fled their Paris apartment, and headed for the south of France. They eventually managed to obtain visas with the help of the American branch of YIVO, and emigrated to the United States in September 1940, settling in New York City.〔 Tcherikower had continued to chair the Historical Section of YIVO until 1939,〔Petersen, Heidemarie (2004). "'(Mir zen far zikh di geshikhte nit fun a historisher mumie': Die Historische Sektion des YIVO und die jüdische Geschichtsschreibung im Polen der Zwischenkriegszeit )" (pp. 165-179). In Marina Dmitrieva and Heidemarie Petersen (Eds.), ''Jüdische Kultur(en) im neuen Europa: Wilna 1918-1939''. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 166.〕 and after his arrival in New York he served as the section's research secretary at YIVO's new headquarters there. He died in New York City in 1943.〔"Tcherikower" (obituaries ) (August 30, 1943). ''New York Times''. "Yiddish Scientific Institute mourns the loss of its Research Secretary of the Section of History, Elias Tcherikower."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elias Tcherikower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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