Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920

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Synopsis
Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish–Soviet War. William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios dramatizing popular anti-Jewish fears and resentments.

While scholarship on modern anti-Semitism has stressed its ideological inspiration ('print anti-Semitism'), this study shows that anti-Jewish violence by perpetrators among civilians and soldiers expressed magic-infused anxieties and longings for redemption from present threats and suffering ('folk anti-Semitism'). Illustrated with contemporary photographs and constructed from extensive, newly discovered archival sources from three continents, this is an innovative work in east European history. Using extensive first-person testimonies, it reveals gaps - but also correspondences - between popular attitudes and those of the political elite. The pogroms raged against the conscious will of new Poland's governors whilst Christians high and low sometimes sought, even successfully, to block them.

The first deeply researched history in any language of Great War era pogroms in Poland.

Reconstructs grassroots collective behavior in light of folk culture and social psychology.

The multi-lingual research draws on widespread new sources - including archives in Poland, Austria, Israel, and New York City - and myriad first-person testimonies.

Copyright:
2018

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
570 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781108664783
Related ISBNs:
9780521884921, 9780521884921
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
William W. Hagen
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction
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Bookshare Staff
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