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Book Easter in Kishinev

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward H. Judge
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1995-02
  • ISBN : 0814742238
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Easter in Kishinev written by Edward H. Judge and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge's book is the best to date on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In seven gracefully written chapters, the author lays out the background of the Jewish question in Russia, profiles the city of Kishinev, narrates the events leading up to and included in the pogrom, and analyzes its causes and effects. -Choice A detailed re-examination of the notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903. -East European Jewish Affairs In February of 1903, in a town in the southwestern part of the Russian empire, a peasant stumbled upon the corpse of 14-year old Mikhail Rybachenko, bruised and covered with stab wounds, in a garden. The murder immediately fueled wild rumors that he had been killed by local Jews in need of his Christian blood to prepare their matzah bread. Panic rumors, grounded in sinister superstitions of Jewish sorcery and ritual murder, quickly spread to nearby towns. By April, they had hit Kishinev -- a growing metropolis of 100,000 inhabitants rife with the unrest of rapid expansion, ethnic rivalry, revolutionary agitation, and anti-Semitism -- with full force. The resulting massacre left dozens dead, and hundreds wounded, maimed, widowed, orphaned or homeless. This is the story of Kishinev. In this extensively researched book, Edward Judge examines these anti-Jewish riots, detailing their background, cause, and aftermath. He traces the evolution of the riots, analyzing the broader impact of imperial policies, urbanization, nationalism, population growth, and revolutionary activism upon the Jewish situation in Russia. Recounting the activities and attitudes of anti- semitic agitators and Kishinev officials, the book examines the spiral of violence, the inaction of the authorities in the wake of the pogrom, the storm of indignation that followed the pogrom, and the efforts of tsarist officials to counter subsequent negative publicity. EASTER IN KISHINEV also portrays the investigation of the disorders and the trials of the rioters and carefully considers the question of government responsibility for the outbreak of the pogrom.

Book Pogrom  Kishinev and the Tilt of History

Download or read book Pogrom Kishinev and the Tilt of History written by Steven J. Zipperstein and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (History) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the East Hampton Star Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history. So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was “nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself.” In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed. Recounted in lurid detail by newspapers throughout the Western world, and covered sensationally by America’s Hearst press, the pre-Easter attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype for what would become known as a “pogrom,” and providing the impetus for efforts as varied as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the NAACP. Using new evidence culled from Russia, Israel, and Europe, distinguished historian Steven J. Zipperstein’s wide-ranging book brings historical insight and clarity to a much-misunderstood event that would do so much to transform twentieth-century Jewish life and beyond.

Book Beyond the Pale

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  • Author : Benjamin Nathans
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2004-04-29
  • ISBN : 9780520242326
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Pale written by Benjamin Nathans and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, 'beyond the Pale' of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. This text reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter, using long-closed Russian archives and other sources.

Book Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the Present

Download or read book Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the Present written by Robert Michael and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 2,500 entries, this Dictionary includes entries that cover ancient, medieval, and modern antisemitism; pagan, Christian, and Muslim antisemitism; religious, economic, psychosocial, racial, cultural, and political antisemitism. A comprehensive scholarly introduction discusses the definitions, causes, and varieties of antisemitism.

Book The Jews in Poland and Russia

Download or read book The Jews in Poland and Russia written by Antony Polonsky and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey-socio-political, economic, and religious-of Jewish life in Poland and Russia. Wherever possible, contemporary Jewish writings are used to illustrate how Jews felt and reacted to new situations and ideas.

Book With Freedom in Our Ears

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  • Author : Anna Elena Torres
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2023-05-02
  • ISBN : 0252054288
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book With Freedom in Our Ears written by Anna Elena Torres and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased tradition. Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women’s studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies. These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, including the translation practices of the Jewish anarchist press. Jewish anarchists drew from a matrix of secular, cultural, and religious influences, inventing new anarchist forms that ranged from mystical individualism to militantly atheist revolutionary cells. With Freedom in Our Ears brings together more than a dozen scholars and translators to write the first collaborative history of international, multilingual, and transdisciplinary Jewish anarchism.

Book Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution  1905

Download or read book Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution 1905 written by Gerald D. Surh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on extensive original research, examines the widespread and violent pogroms against Jews which took place in the Russian Empire in 1905. It briefly surveys the earlier history of Jews in the Russian Empire and the discriminatory policies against them. The work outlines the extent of the killings and lootings in 1905, explores the role of the authorities who were often neutral or complicit in the violence, and highlights Jewish self-defense measures. It relates the pogroms to the place of the Jews in Russian urban and rural life, to social change and modernisation, and to the revolutionary events of 1905, in which Jews played a prominent role, and during which calls for ethnic self-determination arose among many nationalities of the Russian Empire, most broadly and consequentially among Jews. Overall, the book views the pogroms as a consequence not only of Russian antisemitism, but of the broader, revolutionary breakdown of Russian state and society in 1905.

Book Tears of History

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  • Author : Pierre Birnbaum
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2023-08-01
  • ISBN : 0231558023
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Tears of History written by Pierre Birnbaum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has assailed many targets, but Jews have rarely been among them. Observing what he took to be an American exception, the influential historian Salo Baron challenged the “lachrymose conception” of Jewish history as an unending flow of oppressions, and many have followed him in seeing American Jews as sheltered from violence. But in recent years a spate of antisemitic attacks has cast doubt on this rosy view. The eminent French scholar Pierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism. He explores the promise of American tolerance as well as the darkest moments of American intolerance, such as the 1913 lynching of Leo Frank. Birnbaum engages deeply with Baron’s views about Jewish history and tracks the echoes of European antisemitic violence in American culture. He argues that a new and insidious form of antisemitic ideology has arisen, one that sees the state as an instrument of Jewish control—and threatens further bloodshed. Thoughtful and eloquent, Tears of History is an important reflection on the roots of antisemitic violence and hatred.

Book Slavic Review

Download or read book Slavic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies" (varies).

Book Essays En Route

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0595305040
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Essays En Route written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marked for Life

Download or read book Marked for Life written by Joie Davidow and published by Josephine Davidow. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attractive and successful, Joie Davidow presents a confident face to the world. But her carefully applied makeup conceals a secret she has kept for decades. Marked for Life chronicles Joie's struggle to overcome feeling that she was grotesquely flawed, while hiding behind a cosmetic mask that granted her entry into a profession that puts a premium on appearance, culminating in the life-changing realization that in deceiving others, she was also betraying herself. Written with humor and refreshingly devoid of self-pity, it will touch anyone who has ever felt "different" from the rest of the world.

Book The Farhud

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  • Author : Edwin Black
  • Publisher : Dialog Press
  • Release : 2010-11-16
  • ISBN : 091415365X
  • Pages : 731 pages

Download or read book The Farhud written by Edwin Black and published by Dialog Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.

Book Topographies

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  • Author : Stephen Benz
  • Publisher : Etruscan Press
  • Release : 2019-08-20
  • ISBN : 0999753487
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Topographies written by Stephen Benz and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild ride on the madcap streets of Guatemala City. A twilight walk through old Havana with a Cuban mailman. A canoe trip in search of a lost grave in the Everglades. These are some of the experiences Stephen Benz describes in Topographies, an insightful and evocative collection of personal essays.

Book Pogroms

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Doyle Klier
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-02-12
  • ISBN : 9780521528511
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Pogroms written by John Doyle Klier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars of Russian Jewish history reflect on the pogroms in Tsarist and revolutionary Russia.

Book The Best American Travel Writing 2015

Download or read book The Best American Travel Writing 2015 written by Andrew McCarthy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best travel writing.

Book Live   be Well

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  • Author : Richard F. Shepard
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780813528120
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Live be Well written by Richard F. Shepard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book heralds and documents the rich and vibrant traditions of Yiddish-speaking immigrants and their children in the golden land, from the first arrivals until World War II. It presents the famous, infamous and the unknown and is illustrated with photographs, cartoons and theatre posters.

Book Irish Slavonic Studies

Download or read book Irish Slavonic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: