1st Edition
Enemies for a Day Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars
Edited By Darius Staliūnas
Copyright 2015
296 Pages
by
Central European University Press
296 Pages
by
Central European University 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.... Read more
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
Biography
Darius Staliūnas 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 Mačiulis, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015).
