Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880–1918

CONTENTS

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Robert Nemes and Daniel Unowsky Part 1. Catholicism, Antisemitism, and Anti-­Jewish Violence 1 Local Violence, Regional Politics, and State Crisis: The 1898 Anti-­ Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia 13 Daniel Unowsky 2 Catholics and the Rhetoric of Antisemitic Violence in fin-­de-­siècle France 36 Vicki Caron 3 “L’Osservatore Cattolico” and Davide Albertario: Catholic Public Relations and Antisemitic Propaganda in Milan 61 Ulrich Wyrwa Part 2. Local Violence and “Ethnic” Politics 4 The Brusturoasa Uprising in Romania 79 Iulia Onac 5 From Boycott to Riot: The Moravian Anti-­ Jewish Violence of 1899 and Its Background 94 Michal Frankl 6 “An Antisemitic Aftertaste”: Anti-­ Jewish Violence in Habsburg Croatia 115 Marija Vulesica Part 3. The Circle Widens 7 “Trouble Is Yet Coming!”: The British Brothers League, Immigration, and Anti-­ Jewish Sentiment in London’s East End, 1901–1903 137 Sam Johnson 8 Bigamy and Bigotry in the Austrian Alps: Antisemitism, Gender, and the “Hervay Affair” of 1904 157 Alison Rose 9 The Blood Libel on Greek Islands in the Nineteenth Century 178 Mary Margaroni Part 4. Revolution and War 10 “Horrible Were the Avengers, but the Jews Were Horrible, Too”: Anti-­ Jewish Riots in Rural Lithuania in 1905 199 Klaus Richter 11 Duty and Ambivalence: The Russian Army and Pogroms, 1903–1906 215 Gerald D. Surh 12 Refugees and Antisemitism in Hungary during the First World War 236 Robert Nemes Afterword: European Antisemitism—the Search for a Pattern 255 Hillel J. Kieval Notes 265 About the Contributors 333 Index 337 ...