ISBN:
9780253355201
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 220 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Anti-Jewish Violence : Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History
DDC:
305.892/404709041
Keywords:
Pogroms Congresses
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Jews Congresses Persecutions
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Jews Congresses Persecutions 20th century
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History
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Jews Congresses Persecutions 19th century
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History
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Europe, Eastern ; Ethnic relations
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Jews ; Persecutions ; Europe, Eastern ; History ; 19th century ; Congresses
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Jews ; Persecutions ; Europe, Eastern ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses
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Jews ; Persecutions ; Soviet Union ; Congresses
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Pogroms ; Russia ; Congresses
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Russia ; Ethnic relations
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Electronic books
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Russia Ethnic relations
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Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Defusing the Ethnic Bomb: Resolving Local Conflict through Philanthropy in the Interwar USSRGlossary; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
"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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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