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Shades of Justice

Abstract The paper reflects on the problem of justice to the victims of mass violence, such as the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine in 1918–1919. It considers the 1926trial of Sholom Schwartzbard, the assassin of the former Ukrainian leader Simon Petliura, and the story by the Russian Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson “Among Immigrants.” It argues that justice to the dead is similarly imperiled by the universal categories of law and by the particularist rhetoric of literature. In the trial, justice to the massacred Jews becomes dissolved in the rhetoric of universal justice for all humanity. In the story, it is belied by the excessive attention paid to the singularity of the person who claims to be justice’s agent.