Enemies for a Day

Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvDarius Staliūnas,Darius Staliūnas,Darius Staliunas

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It begins by illustrating how widespread anti-Jewish feelings were among the Christian population in 19 th century, focusing on blood libel accusations as well as describing the role of modern antisemitism. Secondly, it tries to identify the structural preconditions as well as specific triggers that turned anti-Jewish feelings into collective violence and analyzes the nature of this violence. Lastly, pogroms in Lithuania are compared to anti-Jewish violence in other regions of the Russian Empire and East Galicia. This research is inspired by the cultural turn in social sciences, an approach that assumes that violence is filled with meaning, which is “culturally constructed, discursively mediated, symbolically saturated, and ritually regulated.” The author argues that pogroms in Lithuania instead followed a communal pattern of ethnic violence and was very different from deadly pogroms in other parts of the Russian Empire.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-04-10
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistorical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press
Antal sidor296
FörlagCentral European University Press
ISBN9789633860977

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Darius Staliūnas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. He is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Budapest: CEU Press, 2015), and, with Dangiras Mačiulis, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015).

Preface and Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. The Blood Libel in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania, 2. Antisemitism in Lithuania, 3. Lithuania during the “Storms in the South” (Early 1880s), 4. How Insulted Religious Feelings Turned into Pogroms: Lithuania in 1900, 5. Antisemitic Tensions and Pogroms in the Late Imperial Period, 6. Comparative Perspective, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

"This book is the first sustained and systematic study of pogroms in Tsarist Lithuania. Geographically, the book focuses on Lithuania understood in the 'ethnic' sense, that is, as the territory roughly coextensive with the modern state of Lithuania (rather than the early modern Grand Duchy of Lithuania). Temporally, it covers the long nineteenth century, though the focus is primarily on the period between the 1880s and the First World War - the time when most pogroms in Lithuania took place. Staliūnas has done an admirable job bringing to light a previously unexamined and important historical problem. His use of sources (Yiddish, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Belarusian), attention to detail, and judicious analysis are most impressive."