18th century
Massacre of the Koliivshchyna
1768·Smila
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the city taken by the haidamaks, the Jewish quarter destroyed
The Koliivshchyna erupted in the spring across the great estates of the Kiev palatinate, where the minor Polish nobility, the Uniate clergy, and the Jews formed, in the eyes of Ukrainian peasants, the three faces of a single order. Smila was one of the towns seized by the Haidamaka bands, its Jewish quarter destroyed. The Jews there held, as everywhere across these latifundia, the tavern, mill, and toll leases that the magnates farmed out to them: it was in this capacity, that of the visible intermediary of an invisible master, that they were struck first. The number of the dead was never established, and the chronicles of the time, written on all sides, alternately inflated and suppressed it.
- Period :
- 18th century
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Simon Doubnov, *Histoire des Juifs de Russie et de Pologne* ; Gershon David Hundert, *Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century* ; *Encyclopaedia Judaica*, article « Haidamacks ».