John Doyle Klier (University College London)

Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anti-Jewish pogroms rocked the Russian Empire in 1881â 2, plunging both the Jewish community and the imperial authorities into crisis. Focusing on a wide range of responses to the pogroms, this book offers the most comprehensive, balanced, and complex study of the crisis to date.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781107634152
• ISBN-10: 1107634156
• Artikelnr.: 40306639

Autorenporträt

John Doyle Klier (1944-2007) was latterly Sidney and Elizabeth Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at University College London. His previous publications, Russia Gathers Her Jews (1985) and Imperial Russia's Jewish Question (1995), are standard works in modern Russian-Jewish history, along with Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History (co-editor, 1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: the Russian Empire and its Jews
1. The pogroms of 1881-2
2. What was a pogrom?
Part II: 3. Confronting the pogroms
4. Russian society views the pogroms
5. The crystallization of prejudice
6. Prejudice into policy
7. The pogroms as foreign policy crisis
Part III: 8. Jewish responses to the pogroms
9. The Jewish press and the emigration crisis
10. Politics without prophecy
11. The pogroms as humanitarian crisis
Epilogue: legends of the pogroms.