Enemies for a Day : Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Ceu Press)

Staliunas, Darius (EDT)

Central European University Press（2015/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789633860977
• DDC分類 305.892404793

Full Description

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.

Contents

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