Anti–Jewish Violence – Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History de Jonathan Dekel–chen

Anti–Jewish Violence – Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History

Jonathan Dekel–chen

David Gaunt

Natan M. Meir

Israel Bartal

Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unrivalled 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.

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Preface: A Tribute to John D. Klier; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations Introduction / David Gaunt, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal; 1. What's in a Pogrom? European Jews in the Age of Violence / David EngelPart 1. Twentieth-Century Pogroms 2. 1915 and the War Pogrom Paradigm in the Russian Empire / Eric Lohr; 3. The Role of Personality in the First (1914-1915) Russian Occupation of Galicia and Bukovina / Peter Holquist; 4. Freedom, Shortages, Violence: The Origins of the "Revolutionary Anti-Jewish Pogrom " in Russia, 1917-1918 / Vladimir P. BuldakovPart 2. Responses to Pogroms 5. Preventing Pogroms: Patterns in Jewish Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Russia / Vladimir Levin; 6. "The Sword Hanging over Their Heads": The Significance of Pogrom for Russian Jewish Everyday Life and Self-Understanding (The Case of Kiev) / Natan M. MeirPart 3. Regional Perspectives 7. The Possibility of the Impossible: Pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina; 8. Was Lithuania a Pogrom-Free Zone? (18811940) / Vladas Sirutaviius and Darius Stalinas; 9. The Missing Pogroms of Belorussia, 18811882: Conditions and Motives of an Absence of Violence / Claire Le Foll; 10. Ethnic Conflict and Modernization in the Interwar Period: The Case of Soviet Belorussia / Arkadi Zeltser; 11. Defusing the Ethnic Bomb: Resolving Local Conflict through Philanthropy in the Interwar USSR / Jonathan Dekel-ChenGlossary; List of Contributors; Index

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"This volume is an important contribution to the study of Jewish-Russian relations from the end of the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth century. ... [T]he articles complement each other and create an interesting and complex narrative of inter-ethnic relations in Eastern Europe and the USSR, drawing on new archival research from across the post-Soviet space."—Slavonic & East European Review (SEER) "Some of the newest and most innovative work on the sources of, reactions to, and representations of anti-Jewish violence and pogroms in eastern Europe." Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire