The terrible Jewish massacres in the Ukraine in the year 1919, which set the whole land a?ame, can not be. Compared with the pogroms in the eighties and during the first decade Of our century. The latter form, in essence and scope, a chapter in themselves. The tsar ist regime endeavored to divert the attention of the socially and politically discontented masses in another direction, the direction of least resistance. This they did by inciting the ignorant and intimidated lower classes against the defenseless Jews, who, they alleged, were responsible for the misery of the people. The Jews were represented as the exploiters of the people, as leeches, who sucked the blood of the peasant and robbed him of the fruits of his economic activity. Later, when the elemental forces of the revolution burst forth and whipped the waves of passion into high fury, the Jews were depicted by the agents of tsarism before the lowest classes of the people as the leaders of unrest and rebellion, who were rising against the Fatherland and the 'little Father' (the The Jewish pogroms coincide with the criti cal moments of the then regime and follow in scope and intensity a course parallel to that of the revolution.2 slaughter OF jews IN the ukraine.