Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920

William W. Hagen is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Davis. He has published extensively, including German History in Modern Times (2012), which was selected as an 'outstanding academic work' by the American Library Association's journal, Choice.

• Introduction: culture and psychology of the Polish–Jewish relationship; Theoretical footnote: ethnic violence in social science and historiography; Part I. War, Hunger, Revolt: Galicia, 1914–1918: 1. Peacetime precursors, Russian invasion, and the first wartime pogroms, 1914–1916; 2. West Galicia's Jews, 1917–1918: objects of envy, targets of rage; 3. Polish dawn, Jewish midnight: the November 1918 Pogroms in West Galicia and Lwów; 4. Reading the November Pogroms: rage, shame, denial, denunciations; Part II. National Independence's After-Tremors: 5. Jews in Russian Poland, 1914–1919: German friends, Russian enemies, Polish rivals, Zionist prophets; 6. In National Freedom's morning light: disarray in Warsaw, social war in Galicia; Part III. Pogroms' Path Eastward, 1919–1920: 7. Soldierly antisemitism, Pinsk massacre, and Morgenthau's mission: pranks, exorcisms, explanations, exculpations; 8. On apocalypse's edge: army and Jews during the Polish–Soviet War, 1920; 9. In Armageddon's shadow: anti-Jewish violence in the Polish–Soviet War Zone, July-October 1920; 10. In Eastern anarchy's orbit: Polish soldiery among Cossacks and anti-Bolshevik Warlords; Conclusion: lords of commerce, lords of communism – print antisemitism, popular anti-Judaism; Bibliography; Index.

'No one writes with greater eloquence on East Central Europe's often confounding past than William W. Hagen, and this book on the pogroms that shook Poland after World War One demands all his formidable powers of analysis. His cool-headed yet urgently argued narrative opens inner worlds of forgotten perpetrators to historical reflection, and will be counted as a classic of the genre.' John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley