Pogroms

Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois. He is the author and coeditor of seven books, including The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town.Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, and most recently of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.

• AcknowledgmentsPogroms: An Introduction // Eugene M. Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad Chapter 1 Pogroms in Russia's Borderlands, 1881-1884 // Eugene M. Avrutin1.1 Pogrom in Smela, Kiev Province [1881]1.2 Leaflets Dropped around Kharkov Inviting People to Commit Anti-Jewish Violence [1881]1.3 Telegram to the Minister of Internal Affairs from Prince Donbukov (1881)1.4 Telegram Sent to the Ministry of the Interior from the Rovno Jewish Community (1881)1.5 Circular Distributed by E. I. Totleben, the Governor-General of Vil'na, to His Subordinates (1881)1.6 Observations Made by a Nameless Doctor [1881 or 1882]1.7 Secret Memo by the Deputy Chief of the Gendarme Department in Chernigov Province (1881)1.8 Memo Written by the Ekaterinoslav Governor to the Ministry of the Interior (1881)1.9 The Russo-Jewish Question. A Special Correspondent of the Jewish World (1881) Chapter 2 The 1898 Anti-Jewish Violence in Habsburg Galicia // Daniel Unowsky2.1 Pamphlet Widely Disseminated in Western Galicia: Jewish Secrets (1898)2.2 Election Campaign Promotion from Wieniec Pszczólka (1898)2.3 Report from the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska District Captain (1898)2.4 Anti-Jewish Flyers (1898)2.5 The Lutcza Indictment (1899)2.6 Three Trial Excerpts (1898) Chapter 3 Kishinev Pogrom // Steven J. Zipperstein3.1 On Hayim Nahman Bialik's "City of Killing" (1935)3.2 Hayim Nahman Bialik, "City of Killing" (1903)3.3 Testimony of Israel Rossman (1903)3.4 The Kishinev Pogroms, by Jacob Bernstein-Kogan (1946)3.5 Solzhenitsyn on the Kishinev Pogrom (2001)3.6 Pavel Krushevan's Description of Sordid Jewish Economic Activity (1903)3.7 Pogroms and Lynching (1903) Chapter 4 1905: Russia's Encounter with Revolution and Pogroms // Robert Weinberg4.1 Government Inquiry Links Pogrom to Civil Unrest [1906]4.2 Students, Workers, and Revolutionaries Clash with Soldiers [1906]4.3 Calm before the Storm [1906]4.4 The Pogrom Begins [1906]4.5 Military Commander Describes the Outbreak of Violence [1905]4.6 The Western Press Describes the Pogrom [1905]4.7 Eyewitness Accounts of the Odessa Pogrom [1906]4.8 Government Inquiry Accuses Jews of Inciting the Violence [1906]4.9 Government Inquiry Accuses City Governor of Malfeasance [1906]4.10 Testimony Given by Witness Teplitskii to Senator Kuzminskii (1905) Chapter 5 Pogroms in World War I Russia // Polly Zavadivker5.1 A Jewish Military Doctor's Account from Galicia (1915)5.2 S. An-sky Describes the Radivilov Pogrom (1915)5.3 S. An-sky Witnesses the Aftermath of the Sokal Pogrom and Flight of Jews (1915)5.4 Causes of the Anti-German Pogrom in Moscow (1915)5.5 Russian Military Pogroms in Kovno, Vilna, and Minsk Provinces (1915)5.6 The Rape of Jewish Women during Russian Military Pogroms (1915)5.7 A Russian Jewish Politician Accuses the Russian Government of Complicity in the Incitement of Pogroms (1915)5.8 A Russian Nurse's Notes from the Front [1915 and 1916]5.9 The Kafafov Circular (1916)5.10 The First Jewish Pogrom in Siberia (1916)5.11 A Jewish Soldier Witnesses a Pogrom in Buczacz [1916] Chapter 6 Anti-Jewish Violence in the Russian Civil War // Jeffrey Veidlinger 6.1 The Proskuriv Pogrom (1919) Chapter 7 The Female Dimension of Pogrom Violence, 1917-1921 // Elissa Bemporad7.1 Looting and Rape in Pechora (1919)7.2 Looting and Rape in Smila (1919)7.3 Denikin's Forces Depart from Smila (1919)7.4 The Doctors Speak (1919)7.5 Malka Lee's Through the Eyes of a Child (1919)7.6 Rokhl Faygnberg's A Writer's Calling (1929) 7.7 Rokhl Faygnberg's The Destruction of Dubovo: the Chronicle of a Dead City (1921)7.8 Women as Agents of Violence (1919) Chapter 8 Documentary Fiction of the Pogroms of the Civil War // Harriet Murav8.1 Itsik Kipnis's Months and Days (1926) Chapter 9 Pogroms in Modern Poland, 1918-1946 // Anna Cichopek-Gajraj and Glenn Dynner9.1 Police Report about the Incidents Involving Policemen in Kraków (1918)9.2 "The Lemberg Horrors," by Joseph Bendrow (1918)9.3 Testimony from the Vilna Pogrom (1919)9.4 Report about the Incidents in Przytyk (1936)9.5 Prohibition against Making Arrests at Fairs, Markets, and the Like Where the Crowd May Prevent Them (1936)9.6 The Pogrom in Minsk Mazowiecki (1936)9.7 Interpolation of Deputy Dr. Emil Sommerstein after Brest on Bug Pogrom (1937)9.8 Article from the Anticommunist Underground Journal Honor and Fatherland (1946) For Further ReadingContributors

A terrifying but necessary account of the innumerable instances of violence against Jews in eastern Europe. Carefully selected by leading experts, a multitude of voices speaks to us: voices of victims who often suffered unspeakable horrors; hateful voices of those who incited the violence; sympathetic and often helpless voices of journalists, writers, physicians, officials trying to find words encompassing the suffering.