Anti-Jewish violence : rethinking the pogrom in East European history / edited by Jonathan Dekel-Chen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century--Congresses.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century--Congresses.

Pogroms--Russia--Congresses.

Pogroms.

Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union--Congresses.

Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations.

Europe, Eastern.

Russia--Ethnic relations.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating newly available primary sources, this collection of groundbreaking essays by researchers from Europe, the United States, and Israel investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was averted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia s early revolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Crimea, and Siberia."

Contents:

What's in a pogrom? European Jews in the age of violence / David Engel

1915 and the war pogrom paradigm in the Russian empire / Eric Lohr

The role of personality in the first (1914-1915) Russian occupation of Galicia and Bukovina / Peter Holquist

Freedom, shortages, violence: the origins of the "revolutionary anti-Jewish pogrom" in Russia, 1917-1918 / Vladimir P. Buldakov

Preventing pogroms: patterns in Jewish politics in early twentieth-century Russia / Vladimir Levin

The sword hanging over their heads: the significance of pogrom for Russian Jewish everyday life and self-understanding (the case of Kiev) / Natan M. Meir

The possibility of the impossible: pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina

Was Lithuania a pogrom-free zone? (1881-1940) / Vladas Sirutavičius and Darius Staliūnas

The missing pogroms of Belorussia, 1881-1882: conditions and motives of an absence of violence / Claire Le Foll

Ethnic conflict and modernization in the interwar period: the case of Soviet Belorussia / Arkadi Zeltser

Defusing the ethnic bomb: resolving local conflict through philanthropy in the interwar USSR / Jonathan Dekel-Chen.

Notes:

"The idea for this book originated at an international academic conference held in Stockholm in May 2005, titled "Anti-Jewish violence: reconceptualizing the pogrom in European history, 17th-20th century."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-97574-9

9786612975745

0-253-00478-0

OCLC:

694147120