Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History

Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, theanti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the timeunrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating newly available primarysources, this collection of groundbreaking essays by researchers from Europe, theUnited States, and Israel investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, thelocal and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence wasaverted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia's earlyrevolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Crimea, and Siberia. 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 Engel Part 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. Buldakov Part 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. Meir Part 3. Regional Perspectives 7. The Possibility of the Impossible: Pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina 8. Was Lithuania a Pogrom-Free Zone? (1881-1940) / Vladas Sirutavicius and Darius Staliunas 9. The Missing Pogroms of Belorussia, 1881-1882: 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-Chen Glossary List of Contributors Index