MARGOLIN, ARNOLD

MARGOLIN, ARNOLD (1877–1956), Ukrainian lawyer. Born in Kiev, the son of a rich sugar manufacturer, Margolin was well-known for his role in pogrom trials, and especially in the beilis case. He was disbarred for his stand against the czarist court authorities but his rights were restored after the revolution. After M. Mandelstamm 's death in 1912, Margolin became, together with Dr. I. Jochelman, the leader of the Territorialist Organization in Russia (see territorialism ). In 1918 he was appointed associate justice of the highest Ukrainian court, and later deputy minister of foreign affairs in the Ukrainian government. Although he resigned in March 1919 after the Proskurov pogrom, he nevertheless defended the petlyura government, considering that the pogroms were perpetrated only by the Black Hundreds (see union of russian people ) and other agitators. In 1919 he became the diplomatic representative of the Ukrainian government in England, and in 1922 he left London for the United States, where he was a journalist and lecturer. He was admitted to the bar association of Massachusetts in 1929 and to that of Washington, D.C., in 1936. Margolin wrote several books, among them Ukraina i politika antanty ("Ukraine and the Policy of Entente," 1922), The Jews of Eastern Europe (1926), and Froma Political Diary (1946). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Tcherikower, Di Ukrainer Pogromen in Yor 1919 (1965), 186–9; J. Frumkin (ed.), Russian Jewry (1966), 164, 199.