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18 - Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe through 1920

from Part III - The Modern Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Laura Engelstein
Edited by
Steven Katz
Steven Katz
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

The late Russian empire was notorious in the West for policies discriminating against its large Jewish population and for outbursts of anti-Jewish mob violence known as pogroms. As the country descended into revolution and civil war, antisemitism served the ideological purposes of both the Russo-centric counterrevolution and the anti-imperial nationalist mobilization, with fatal consequences for the Jews.

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Pale of the SettlementBeilis trialProtocolspogrom
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 325 - 339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Blobaum, R., ed., Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Ithaca, NY, 2005). Leading scholars treat a range of issues from the mid-19th century to post–World War II.Google Scholar
Budnitskii, O., Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917–1920, trans. Portice, T. J. (Philadelphia, 2012). Comprehensive treatment of complex issues in the Russian Civil War by a leading Moscow-based scholar.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dekel-Chen, J., et al., eds., Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History (Bloomington, IN, 2011). Overview, plus regional studies, from 1881 to 1940.Google Scholar
Engelstein, L., The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism: Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland (Waltham, MA, 2020). Twentieth-century Jewish challenges put antisemites on the defensive.Google Scholar
Klier, J. D., Russians, Jews, and the Pogrom Crisis of 1881–1882 (Cambridge, 2011). Leading scholar treats a key episode in the escalation of anti-Jewish violence.Google Scholar
Klier, J. D., and Lambroza, S., eds., Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History (Cambridge, 1992). Studies on the years 1881–1906, with an essay on the civil war and several overviews.Google Scholar
Löwe, H.-D., The Tsars and the Jews: Reform, Reaction and Anti-Semitism in Imperial Russia, 1771–1917 (Chur, 1993). Useful study of imperial policy by a German scholar, which interprets antisemitism as a form of anticapitalist resistance.Google Scholar
Nathans, B., Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (Berkeley, CA, 2002). This study of “selective integration” examines how Jews entered and influenced Russian public life.Google Scholar
Prusin, A. V., Nationalizing a Borderland: War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920 (Tuscaloosa, AL, 2005). Covers Russian military occupation and the Polish-Jewish conflict in Austrian Galicia during World War I.Google Scholar
Rogger, H., Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, CA, 1986). Unsurpassed classic essays with interpretations that have shaped the field.Google Scholar
Staliūnas, D., Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Budapest, 2015). Studies the cultural and sociological aspects of ethnic relations.Google Scholar
Weeks, T. R., From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The “Jewish Question” in Poland, 1850–1914 (DeKalb, IL, 2006). Examines the emergence of antisemitism as a modern political movement in Russian-ruled Poland.Google Scholar

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