Elias Tcherikower

Elias Tcherikower, Eliahu Tcherikower, Elias Tscherikower, I. M. Cherikover (1881-1943), was a historian of Judaism or the Jewish people.

In August 1925, along with Max Weinreich and Nochum Shtif, he helped establish the Jewish research institute YIVO.

He is more often remembered for his research on the notorious Protocols of Zion and for his participation in the Berne Trial of 1935 and his presentation of evidence and testimony for the prosecution against the Protocols.

Works

• Jewish Martyrology and Jewish Historiography

Reprint from Yivo Annual of Jewish Social Science

vol. 1, 1946

See also

• Berne Trial

• Henryk Baran

• Protocols of Zion

External links

• The Pogroms in the Ukraine in 1919
• Elias Tcherikower Archive (1903-1963) at the Center for Jewish History/YIVO
• YIVO Encyclopedia entry on Tsherikover