1st Edition

A Pragmatic Alliance Jewish-Lithuanian political cooperation at the beginning of the 20th century

Edited By Vladas Sirutavicius, Darius Staliunas Copyright 2011
280 Pages
by Central European University Press

Discusses the political cooperation between Jews and Lithuanians in the Tsarist Empire from the last decades of the 19th century until the early 1920s. These years saw the transformation of both Jewish and Lithuanian political life. Within the Jewish community, the previously dominant integrationists were now challenged both by those who believed that the Jews were not a religious but an ethnic... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1: Jews and the Lithuanian National Movement, Chapter 2: Collaboration of Lithuanians and Jews during the Elections to the First and the Second Dumas, Chapter 3: Lithuanians in the Jewish Politics of the Late Imperial Period, Chapter 4: Lithuania? - But Which? The Changing Political Attitude of the Jewish Political Elite in East Central Europe towards Emerging Lithuania (1915–1919), Chapter 5: The Zionist Priorities in the Struggle for Lite (1916–1918), Chapter 6: Jewish-Lithuanian relationships during elections to the Constitutive Assembly of Lithuania, Chapter 7 :Between Poland and Lithuania: Jews and the Vilnius Question, 1918–1925, Documents from Archives, Name Index

Biography

Vladas Sirutavicius is a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History and associate professor at Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations and Political Science.

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).