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

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CONTENTS Preface: A Tribute to John D. Klier ix Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xv Map: Sites of Major Pogroms xviii Introduction 1 David Gaunt, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal 1 What’s in a Pogrom? European Jews in the Age of Violence 19 David Engel Part 1. Twentieth-Century Pogroms 2 1915 and the War Pogrom Paradigm in the Russian Empire 41 Eric Lohr 3 The Role of Personality in the First (1914–1915) Russian Occupation of Galicia and Bukovina 52 Peter Holquist 4 Freedom, Shortages, Violence: The Origins of the “Revolutionary Anti-Jewish Pogrom” in Russia, 1917–1918 74 Vladimir P. Buldakov Part 2. Responses to Pogroms 5 Preventing Pogroms: Patterns in Jewish Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Russia 95 Vladimir Levin 6 “The Sword Hanging over Their Heads”: The Significance of Pogrom for Russian Jewish Everyday Life and SelfUnderstanding (The Case of Kiev) 111 Natan M. Meir vi CONTENTS Part 3. Regional Perspectives 7 The Possibility of the Impossible: Pogroms in Eastern Siberia 131 Lilia Kalmina 8 Was Lithuania a Pogrom-Free Zone? (1881–1940) 144 Vladas Sirutavicius and Darius Stalivnas 9 The Missing Pogroms of Belorussia, 1881–1882: Conditions and Motives of an Absence of Violence 159 Claire Le Foll 10 Ethnic Conflict and Modernization in the Interwar Period: The Case of Soviet Belorussia 174 Arkadi Zeltser 11 Defusing the Ethnic Bomb: Resolving Local Conflict through Philanthropy in the Interwar USSR 186 Jonathan Dekel-Chen Glossary 205 List of Contributors 207 Index 209 John Doyle Klier (1944–2007) ...