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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797289003321

Autore

Staliūnas Darius

Titolo

Enemies for a day : antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Lithuania under the Tsars / / Darius Staliūnas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, Hungary ; ; New York, New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2015

2015

ISBN

963-386-094-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, , 2306-3637 ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

305.892/40479309034

Soggetti

Antisemitism - Lithuania - History - 19th century

Jews - Lithuania - History - 19th century

Lithuania Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The blood libel in nineteenth-century Lithuania -- Antisemitism in Lithuania -- Lithuania during the "storms in the South" (early 1880's) -- How insulted religious feelings turned into pogroms: Lithuania in 1900 -- Antisemitic tensions and pogroms in late imperial period -- Comparative perspective.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores anti-Jewish violence in Russian-ruled Lithuania. It begins by illustrating how widespread anti-Jewish feelings were among the Christian population in 19 th century, focusing on blood libel accusations as well as describing the role of modern antisemitism. Secondly, it tries to identify the structural preconditions as well as specific triggers that turned anti-Jewish feelings into collective violence and analyzes the nature of this violence. Lastly, pogroms in Lithuania are compared to anti-Jewish violence in other regions of the Russian Empire and East Galicia. This research is inspired by the cultural turn in social sciences, an approach that assumes that violence is filled with meaning, which is “culturally constructed, discursively mediated, symbolically saturated, and ritually regulated.” The author argues that pogroms in Lithuania instead followed a communal pattern of ethnic violence and was very different from deadly pogroms in other parts of



the Russian Empire.