Elias Tcherikower
Tcherikower Elias ( Ilya Cerikover; * 1881 in Poltava, † 1943) was a living historian in Paris, was his life's work the study of anti-Semitism in Ukraine.
He was one of the founders of the Jewish Scientific Institute YIVO.
According Semen Dubnov he finished in 1935 a detailed study of the various versions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, entitled Les ' protocoles ', leur origine et leur diffusion, but remained unpublished. There should be a copy in the Vienna library.
His archive was rescued in 1940 from France to the U.S. and is now in the Yiddish Scientific Institute ( YIVO ) in New York.
Writings
- Antisemitizm i pogromy na Ukraine 1917-1918 ( to the geshikhṭe fun uḳrainish - Yidishe batsihungen, with a fun haḳdama S. Dubnow ). Berlin: Ostjüd. Histor. Archives, 1923.
- Di geshikhṭe fun of pogrom - baṿegung in Ukraine 1917-1921; In 1923.