Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 220 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780253355201
Content:
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 Wa
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"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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Preface: A Tribute to John D. Klier; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Map: Sites of Major Pogroms; Introduction; 1 What's in a Pogrom? European Jews in the Age of Violence; Part 1. Twentieth- Century Pogroms; 2 1915 and the War Pogrom Paradigm in the Russian Empire; 3 The Role of Personality in the First (1914- 1915) Russian Occupation of Galicia and Bukovina; 4 Freedom, Shortages, Violence: The Origins of the "Revolutionary Anti-Jewish Pogrom" in Russia, 1917-1918; Part 2. Responses to Pogroms
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5 Preventing Pogroms: Patterns in Jewish Politics in EarlyTwentieth- Century Russia6 "The Sword Hanging over Their Heads": The Significance of Pogrom for Russian Jewish Everyday Life and Self-nderstanding; Part 3. Regional Perspectives; 7 The Possibility of the Impossible: Pogroms in Eastern Siberia; 8 Was Lithuania a Pogrom-Free Zone? (1881- 1940); 9 The Missing Pogroms of Belorus sia, 1881- 1882: Conditions and Motives of an Absence of Violence; 10 Ethnic Conflict and Modernization in the Interwar Period:The Case of Soviet Belorussia
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11 Defusing the Ethnic Bomb: Resolving Local Conflict through Philanthropy in the Interwar USSRGlossary; List of Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253355201
Additional Edition:
Print version Anti-Jewish Violence : Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History
Language:
English
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