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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460449203321

Titolo

Anti-Jewish violence [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking the pogrom in East European history / / edited by Jonathan Dekel-Chen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97574-9

9786612975745

0-253-00478-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Dekel-ChenJonathan L

Disciplina

305.892/404709041

Soggetti

Jews - Persecutions - Europe, Eastern - History - 19th century

Jews - Persecutions - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Pogroms - Russia

Jews - Persecutions - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations

Russia Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What's in a pogrom? European Jews in the age of violence / David Engel -- 1915 and the war pogrom paradigm in the Russian empire / Eric Lohr -- The role of personality in the first (1914-1915) Russian occupation of Galicia and Bukovina / Peter Holquist -- Freedom, shortages, violence: the origins of the "revolutionary anti-Jewish pogrom" in Russia, 1917-1918 / Vladimir P. Buldakov -- Preventing pogroms: patterns in Jewish politics in early twentieth-century Russia / Vladimir Levin -- 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 -- The possibility of the impossible: pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina -- Was Lithuania a pogrom-free zone? (1881-1940) / Vladas Sirutavičius and Darius Staliūnas --



The missing pogroms of Belorussia, 1881-1882: conditions and motives of an absence of violence / Claire Le Foll -- Ethnic conflict and modernization in the interwar period: the case of Soviet Belorussia / Arkadi Zeltser -- Defusing the ethnic bomb: resolving local conflict through philanthropy in the interwar USSR / Jonathan Dekel-Chen.