Enemies for a Day : : Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars / / Darius Staliūnas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Staliūnas, Darius,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

This book explores anti-Jewish violence in Russian-ruled Lithuania. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of 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