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Pogroms: A Documentary History explores the remarkable long history of anti-Jewish violence in the Eastern European borderlands, beginning with the pogroms of 1881–1882 in the Russian Empire and concluding in Poland on the eve of World War II. The volume opens with a comprehensive introductory essay on pogroms, followed by nine chapters of case studies. Organized chronologically, each chapter includes a unique array of archival and published sources, selected and introduced by a scholar expert in the period under investigation. The documents assembled here include eyewitness testimony, oral histories, diary excerpts, literary works, trial records, and press coverage. They also contain memos and field reports authored by army officials, investigative commissions, humanitarian organizations, and government officials. Pogroms explains the origins, timing, and consequences of pogrom violence at various levels of society, as well as the lives, relationships, activities, and interactions of those groups of people that rarely appear in the historical literature. By providing a nuanced analysis of the specific geopolitical context where the violence erupted, the volume captures the specifi

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Author

Avrutin, Eugene M.; Bemporad, Elissa

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9782021015010

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Judaism, History, True Crime