Title The plunder : the 1898 anti-Jewish riots in Habsburg Galicia / Daniel Unowsky

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Contents Jews, Roman Catholics, and mass politics in western Galicia -- The plunder -- Rioters, Jews, and the state -- The trials -- Politics, policy, and Christian-Jewish relations Summary In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, in present-day Poland and Ukraine. Jewish-owned homes and businesses were ransacked and looted, and Jews were assaulted, threatened, and humiliated, though not killed. Emperor Franz Joseph signed off on a state of emergency in thirty-three counties and declared martial law in two. Over five thousand individuals - peasants, day-laborers, city council members, teachers, shopkeepers - were charged with myriad offenses. Seeking to make sense of this violence and its aftermath, The Plunder examines the circulation of antisemitic ideas within Galicia against the political backdrop of the Habsburg state. Daniel Unowsky sees the 1898 anti-Jewish riots as evidence not of Galician backwardness and barbarity, but of a late nineteenth-century Europe reeling from economic, cultural, and political transformations wrought by mass politics, literacy, industrialization, capitalist agriculture, and government expansion. Through its nuanced analysis of the riots as a form of "exclusionary violence," this book offers new insights into the upsurge of the antisemitism that accompanied the emergence of mass politics in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2018) Subject Riots -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 19th century Antisemitism -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 19th century Political violence -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 19th century Jews -- Crimes against -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics. HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY / Europe / Eastern Antisemitism Ethnic relations -- Political aspects Jews -- Crimes against Political violence Politics and government Riots SUBJECT Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045747 Subject Europe Europe -- Galicia Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017058934 ISBN 9781503606104 1503606104

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