Hajdamaka

Kozak Mamaj och Haidamakarna hänger en jude i hälarna - ukrainsk folkkonst från 1800-talet.

Hajdamaka (ukrainska: Гайдамаки: Hajdamaki, polska: Hajdamacy) var ett pro-ukrainskt paramilitärt zaporogkosackiskt förband som hade sitt ursprung i Podolien, den del av dagens Ukraina som då tillhörde Polsk-litauiska samväldet. Tiden dess upplösning 1793 ägde många katastrofala räder av ukrainska rövarband rum.

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Canvas Cossack Mamay of unknown author. 19 century. Canvas, oil. 70 x 155. In the painting a banduryst is depicted at the foreground, while in the background Haidamakas are killing two Jews-usurers in the forest: one is being hung by his heels on a tree, while the other one is being brought in by his beard. The second Jew-usurer, who's being captured in the forest by Haidamakas, says to the banduryst: "Mercy, pan Mamay, I don't have a penny of money", to which banduryst gives an answer that "I need none of your money, for those like you, the only salvation is heaven!"