Enemies for a Day

Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania Under the Tsars
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-963-386-072-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Staliunas, Darius

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Darius Stali?nas 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 Ma?iulis, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015).