Original sentence: Khmelnitsky role in the atrocities that resulted from the Cossack-Polish war of 1648  is a highly controvercial issue.See Main Article for further information
Edited sentence: "  The most famous Jewish account of the massacres that accompanied the uprising is Nathan Hannover's Yeven Mezulah." With this as their battle-cry, the Cossacks killed a large number of Jews during the years 1648–9.A 2003 study by Israeli demographer Shaul Stampfer of Hebrew University dedicated solely to the issue of Jewish casualties in the Khmelnytsky uprising concludes that 18,000-20,000 Jews were killed out of a total population of 40,000.Characteristically, Sholem Asch wrote about Khmelnytsky's Cossack uprising in his book Al Kiddush Hashem: A Novel of 1648 which describes the massacres of the Jews in horrific detail.Khmelnytsky told the people that the Poles had sold them as slaves "into the hands of the accursed Jews.Orest Subtelny concludes:.Paul Robert Magocsi states that Jewish chroniclers of the seventeenth century "provide invariably inflated figures with respect to the loss of life among the Jewish population of Ukraine.Stone writes that seventeenth-century Jewish chroniclers "made Khmelnytsky the most significant villain in Jewish tradition since the Biblical Haman.The numbers range from 60,000-80,000 (Nathan Hannover) to 100,000 (Sabbatai Cohen), but that "[t]he Israeli scholars Shmuel Ettinger and Bernard D.There is no unanimity among historians as to the exact number of casualties, and the precise number of dead may never be known, but several hundred Jewish communities were attacked (300 of them destroyed completely), and at least 50% of Jews in Ukraine were killed, with death toll estimates ranging from 20,000 to 30,000.This tragedy was etched in Jewish collective memory as the greatest calamity since the days of Simon bar Kokhba and led the way to the Shabtai Zvi movement which started not long afterwards.Weinryb speak instead of the 'annihilation of tens of thousands of Jewish lives', and the Ukrainian-American historian Jaroslaw Pelenski narrows the number of Jewish deaths to between 6,000 and 14,000"