Anti-Jewish violence
Subtitle: rethinking the pogrom in East European history
By: edited by Jonathan Dekel-Chen ... [et al.]
Contributors: Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780253355201
Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Pogroms -- Russia -- Congresses; Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union -- Congresses; Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations; Russia -- Ethnic relations
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's in a pogrom? European Jews in the age of violence / David Engel; title: 1915 and the war pogrom paradigm in the Russian empire / Eric Lohr; title: The role of personality in the first (1914-1915) Russian occupation of Galicia and Bukovina / Peter Holquist; title: Freedom, shortages, violence: the origins of the "revolutionary anti-Jewish pogrom" in Russia, 1917-1918 / Vladimir P. Buldakov; title: Preventing pogroms: patterns in Jewish politics in early twentieth-century Russia / Vladimir Levin; title: 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; title: The possibility of the impossible: pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina; title: Was Lithuania a pogrom-free zone? (1881-1940) / Vladas Sirutavičius and Darius Staliūnas; title: The missing pogroms of Belorussia, 1881-1882: conditions and motives of an absence of violence / Claire Le Foll; title: Ethnic conflict and modernization in the interwar period: the case of Soviet Belorussia / Arkadi Zeltser; title: Defusing the ethnic bomb: resolving local conflict through philanthropy in the interwar USSR / Jonathan Dekel-Chen.