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Title Anti-Jewish violence : rethinking the pogrom in East European history / edited by Jonathan Dekel-Chen [and others]
Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Pogroms -- Russia -- Congresses
Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union -- Congresses
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
Pogroms
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations
Russia (Federation) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Russia
Eastern Europe
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L.
ISBN 9780253004789
0253004780