ARNOLD DAVIDOVICH MARGOLIN: UKRAINIAN–JEWISH JURIST, STATESMAN AND DIPLOMAT

Abstract

This article is a biographical study of Arnold Davidovich Margolin (b. 1877, Kiev; d. 1956, Washington, D.C.), an outstanding lawyer and diplomat and the Vice‐Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918–20). First rising to prominence as one of Mendel Beilis’s lawyers during his blood libel trial, Margolin participated actively in the Jewish national and liberal movements in the Russian Empire. At the peak of his political career in the civil‐war years, and later in emigration in the USA, Margolin focused on the improvement of Ukrainian–Jewish relations and supporting Ukrainian independence.