Enemies for a day : antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Lithuania under the Tsars / Darius Staliūnas,

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staliūnas, Darius, author.

Series:

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; Volume 3.

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 2306-3637 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Lithuania--History--19th century.

Antisemitism.

Jews--Lithuania--History--19th century.

Jews.

Lithuania--Ethnic relations.

Lithuania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : Central European University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores anti-Jewish violence in Russian-ruled Lithuania. It begins by illustrating how widespread anti-Jewish feelings were among the Christian population in 19 th century, focusing on blood libel accusations as well as describing the role of modern antisemitism. Secondly, it tries to identify the structural preconditions as well as specific triggers that turned anti-Jewish feelings into collective violence and analyzes the nature of this violence. Lastly, pogroms in Lithuania are compared to anti-Jewish violence in other regions of the Russian Empire and East Galicia. This research is inspired by the cultural turn in social sciences, an approach that assumes that violence is filled with meaning, which is “culturally constructed, discursively mediated, symbolically saturated, and ritually regulated.” The author argues that pogroms in Lithuania instead followed a communal pattern of ethnic violence and was very different from deadly pogroms in other parts of the Russian Empire.

Contents:

The blood libel in nineteenth-century Lithuania

Antisemitism in Lithuania

Lithuania during the "storms in the South" (early 1880's)

How insulted religious feelings turned into pogroms: Lithuania in 1900

Antisemitic tensions and pogroms in late imperial period

Comparative perspective.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71934-1

963-386-094-6

9781003719342

OCLC:

907996867