Sholom Schwartzbard
Ukrainian assassin
Died when: 51 years 197 days (618 months)Star Sign: Leo

Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard (Russian: ?????? ????????? ?????????, Samuil Isaakovich Shvartsburd, Yiddish: ???? ???????????, French: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Jewish Russian-born French Yiddish poet.
He served in the French and Soviet military, was a communist and anarchist, and is known for the assassination of the Ukrainian national leader Symon Petliura in 1926.
He wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes (English: The Dreamer).
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