Pogroms

Pogrom - pōˈgrəm, pōgrŏmˈ, Russian term, originally meaning "riot," that came to be applied to a series of violent attacks on Jews in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th cent. Pogroms were few before the assassination of Alexander II in 1881; after that, with the connivance of, or at least without hindrance from, the government, there Read More...

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History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times until the Present Day (Chap. XXI "The Accession of Alexander III, and the Inaugurations of Pogroms")
by S. M. Dubnow, I. Friedlaender. 434 pgs.

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Chapter XIII: The Military Despotism of Nicholas I

Chapter XIV: Compulsory Enlightenment and Increased Oppression

Chapter XV: The Jews in the Kingdom of Poland

Chapter XVI: The Inner Life of Russian Jewry During the Period of Military Despotism

Chapter XVII: The Last Years of Nicholas I

Chapter XVIII: The Era of Reforms Under Alexander II

Chapter XIX: The Reaction Under Alexander II

Chapter XX: The Inner Life of Russian Jewry During the Reign of Alexander II

Chapter XXI: The Accession of Alexander III. and the Inauguration of Pogroms

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII: New Measures of Oppression and Public Protests

Chapter XXIV: Legislative Pogroms

Chapter XXV: Inner Upheavals

Chater XXVI: Increased Jewish Disabilities

Chapter XXVII: Russian Reaction and Jewish Emigration

Chapter XXVIII: Judaeophobia Triumphant

Chapter XXIX: The Expulsion from Moscow

Chapter XXX: Baron Hirsch's Emigration Scheme and Unrelieved Suffering
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A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939
by David Vital. 944 pgs.

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The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these events. David Vital explores the Jews' troubled relationship with Europe, documenting the struggles of this 'nation without a territory' to establish a place for itself within an increasingly polarized and nationalist continent. He examines the clash within the Jewish community between politically neutral traditionalists and a new group of activists, whose unprecedented demands for national and political self-determination were stimulated both by increasing civil emancipation and the mounting effort to drive the Jews out of Europe altogether. Controversially, Professor Vital concludes that the history of the Jewish people was indeed in crucial respects although certainly not all of their own making; at times by their own autonomous action and choice; at others by inaction and default. This powerful and stimulating new analysis represents a watershed in our understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.

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Oxford History of Modern Europe

A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939

Preface

Contents

List of Maps

List of Tables

A Note on Transliteration and Translation

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Old Dispensation

Part I: Integration and Fragmentation

1: Proposals

2: Disjunctions

3: Questions from Without and Within

Part II: Aspirations and Equivocations

4: Movement

5: Auto-Emancipation?

6: Crystallization

Part III: New Dispensations

7: War

8: Peace

9: Captivity

10: Denouement

Epilogue

Bibliography

Glossary

Index
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Count Witte and the Tsarist Government in the 1905 Revolution ("Pogroms" begins on p. 57)
by Howard D. Mehlinger, John M. Thompson. 434 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

I Introduction

Ii October 17 Manifesto

Iii Order and Reform: the First Weeks of Witte's Premiership

Iv the Balance Shifts: Order Takes Priority

V the Decisive Struggle and Its Aftermath

Vi Witte and the Peasant Question

Vii the Loan That "Saved" Russia

Viii Elections to the First Duma

Ix the Fundamental Laws of April 1906: a Russian Constitution

X Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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A History of the Jewish People
by Max L. Margolis, Alexander Marx. 823 pgs.

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Book I: In Palestine From The Beginnings To The Extinction Of The Patriarchate (2,000 Before -- 425 After The Christian Era)

Chapter I: The Beginnings Of The People (2000-1225 Before The Christian Era)

Chapter II: Moses. The Exodus (1220)

Chapter III: The Conquest Of Canaan. The Judges (1180-1100)

Chapter IV: The Inroads Of Canaanitish Religion

Chapter V: The Rise Of The Monarchy (1080-1030)

Chapter VI: Saul and David (1030-1013)

Chapter VII: David, The Capture Of Jerusalem (1013-1006)

Chapter VIII: The Wars Of David (1006-980)

Chapter IX: The Revolts Of Absalom and Of Sheba (980-973)

Chapter X: Solomon. The Temple (973-933)

Chapter XI: The Secession Of The North (933-875)

Chapter XII: The Lord Or Baal? -- Elijah (887-851)

Chapter XIII: Ahab and The Arameans (854-843)

Chapter XIV: Elisha. Jehu (843)

Chapter XV: The Advance and Retreat Of Assyria (843-746)

Chapter XVI: Life Under The Monarchy

Chapter XVII: Amos and Hosea (760-734)

Chapter XVIII: Isaiah and The Assyrian Advance (744-720)

Chapter XIX: The Fall Of Samaria. Hezekiah (729-692)

Chapter XX: Manasseh. Josiah. Jeremiah (692-609)

Chapter XXI: The End Of The Kingdom Of Judah (608-586)

Chapter XXII: The Babylonian Exile (586-538)

Chapter XXIII: The Restoration (538-432)

Chapter XXIV: From Persian Rule To Greek (424-187)

Chapter XXV: Hellenists and Pietists. Antiochus Epiphanes (187-165)

Chapter XXVI: Judah The Maccabee and His Brothers (165-142)

Chapter XXVII: Simon. Johanan Hyrcanus. Alexander Jannai (142-76)

Chapter XXVIII: The Last Hasmonean Rulers (76-37)

Chapter XXIX: Herod The Great (37-4)

Chapter XXX: Rome Tightening Its Hold (4 Before -- 41 After The Christian Era)

Chapter XXXI: The War With Rome (41-67)

Chapter XXXII: The National Disaster (68-73)

Chapter XXXIII: Spiritual Reconstruction. Spasms Under Trajan and Hadrian (70-135)

Chapter XXXIV: The Makers Of The Mishnah (135-175)

Chapter XXXV: The Last Patriarchs (180-425)

Book II: The Eastern Center Until The Extinction Of The Gaonate (175-1038)

Chapter XXXVI: Rab and Samuel (175-254)

Chapter XXXVII: Under The Sassanians. The Talmud Of Babylon (254-632)

Chapter XXXVIII: The Rise Of Mohammedanism (622-858)

Chapter XXXIX: The Karaite Schism (767-900)

Chapter XL: Saadiah (882-942)

Chapter XLI: The End Of The Babylonian Schools (943-1038)

Chapter XLII: The Kairawan Community (700-1050)

Book III: The West-European Centers To The Expulsion From Spain (139 Before To 1492 After The Christian Era)

Chapter XLIII: The Jews Of Italy To The End Of The Empire (139 Before -- 410 After The Christian Era)

Chapter XLIV: The Jews Of Italy Down To The Twelfth Century (410-1140)

Chapter XLV: The Jews Of Spain Under Romans, Goths, and Mohammedans (300-990)

Chapter XLVI: Samuel The Nagid and Solomon Ibn Gabirol (993-1069)

Chapter XLVII: Al-Fasi and His School (1013-1141)

Chapter XLVIII: Judah Ha-Levi and Abraham Ibn Ezra (1086-1167)

Chapter XLIX: Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

Chapter L: The Franco-German Center. Gershom Of Mayence (321-1040)

Chapter LI: Rashi and His School. The First Crusade (1040-1105)

Chapter LII: The Second and Third Crusades (1099-1215)

Chapter LIII: The Jews Of France and Germany In The Thirteenth Century (1198-1293)

Chapter LIV: The Jews Of England (1066-1290)

Chapter LV: The Jews Of Provence (1100-1394)

Chapter LVI: German Jews In The Fourteenth Century (1298-1407)

Chapter LVII: German Jews During The Fifteenth Century (1410-1480)

Chapter LVIII: Jews In Christian Spain Nahmani (1203-1293)

Chapter LIX: The Progress Of The Cabala (1280-1340)

Chapter LX: The Decline Of Spanish Jewry (1348-1405)

Chapter LXI: The Disputation Of Tortosa (1340-1444)

Chapter LXII: The Maranos (1454-1488)

Chapter LXIII: The Expulsion From Spain and Portugal (1492-1497)

Book IV: The Emergence Of New Centers To The Eve Of The French Revolution (1492-1786)

Chapter LXIV: The Age Of Humanism (1330-1546)

Chapter LXV: Amsterdam and Hamburg (1492-1671)

Chapter LXVI: Uriel Da Costa and Baruch Spinoza (1585-1677)

Chapter LXVII: The Italian Refuge (1492-1663)

Chapter LXVIII: Under The Crescent (1492-1579)

Chapter LXIX: Palestine (1488-1628)

Chapter LXX: The Jews Of Russia and Poland To The End Of The Fifteenth Century (100-1501)

Chapter LXXI: Internal Organization. Luria and Isserles (1510-1573)

Chapter LXXII

Chapter LXXIII: The Jews Of Bohemia (1579-1654)

Chapter LXXIV: The Chmielnicki Massacres (1648-1655)

Chapter LXXV: Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676)

Chapter LXXVI: The Sabbatians. Moses Hayim Luzzatto (1676-1747)

Chapter LXXVII: Hasidism (1660-1797)

Chapter LXXVIII: The Jews Of Prussia (1671-1786)

Book V: The Age Of Emancipation (1787-1925)

Chapter LXXIX: Jews In America In Colonial and Revolutionary Times (1654-1790)

Chapter LXXX: Jewish Emancipation In France and French Dependencies (1787-1811)

Chapter LXXXI: Emancipation In Prussia (1786-1812)

Chapter LXXXII: Russian Jews Under Paul and Alexander I. (1796-1825)

Chapter LXXXIII: Cultural Transformation In Central Europe (1814-1823)

Chapter LXXXIV: The Renascence Of Jewish Scholarship (1819-1868)

Chapter LXXXV: After The July Revolution (1830-1846)

Chapter LXXXVI: Religious Developments Among The Jews Of The United States (1802-1868)

Chapter LXXXVII: The Damascus Libel (1840)

LXXXVIII: The Struggle For Emancipation In Western Europe (1830-1858)

Chapter LXXXIX: Reform and Counter-Reform (1841-1860)

Chapter XC: Political and Cultural Conditions In Eastern Europe (1815-1855)

Chapter XCI: Progress Of The Reform Movement In America and In Europe (1845-1876)

Chapter XCII: The Jews Of Russia and Rumania (1855-1878)

Chapter XCIV: German Anti-Semitism and Russian Pogroms (1878-1894)

Chapter XCIV: Zionism (1894-1904)

Chapter XCV: The 'Black Hundreds' and The Russian Revolution (1905-1912)

Chapter XCVI: The Exodus To America (1905-1914)

Chapter XCVII: The World War (1914-1918)

Chapter XCVIII: Minority Rights and The Palestinian Mandate (1918-1925)

Bibliography

Chronological Tables

Index

Maps
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Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Chap. 5 "The November Pogrom and Its Aftermath")
by Marion A. Kaplan. 294 pgs.

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Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of Novemer 1938. Then the flow of emigration turned into a torrent, only to be stopped by the war. By that time Jews had been evicted from their homes, robbed of their possessions and their livelihoods, shunned by their former friends, persecuted by their neighbors, and driven into forced labor. For those trapped in Germany, mere survival became a nightmare of increasingly desperate options. Many took their own lives to retain at least some dignity in death; others went underground and endured the fears of nightly bombings and the even greater terror of being discovered by the Nazis. Most were murdered. All were pressed to the limit of human endurance and human loneliness. Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, Between Dignity and Despair takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany.

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Preface and Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: In Public: Jews Are Turned into Pariahs, 1933-1938

2: In Private: The Daily Lives of Jewish Women and Families, 1933-1938

3: Jewish and Mixed" Families"

4: The Daily Lives of Jewish Children and Youth in the Third Reich""

5: The November Pogrom and Its Aftermath

6: War and the Worsening Situation of Jews

7: Forced Labor and Deportations

8: Life Underground

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography of Works Cited

Index
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The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 ("'Reichskristallnacht,' 9-10 November 1938" begins on p. 112)
by Robert Gellately. 302 pgs.

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This book offers an intriguing examination of the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. How was the Gestapo able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines--especially "crimes" pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life? How could the police enforce policies such as those designed to isolate Jews, or the foreign workers brought to Germany after 1939, with such apparent ease? Addressing these questions, Gellately argues that the key factor in the successful enforcement of Nazi racial policy was the willingness of German citizens to provide authorities with information about suspected "criminality." He demonstrates that without some degree of popular participation in the operation of institutions such as the Gestapo, the regime would have been seriously hampered in the "realization of the unthinkable," not only inside Germany but also in many of the occupied countries. The product of extensive archival research, this incisive study surveys the experiences of areas across Germany, drawing out national, local, and regional implications.

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY

Introduction

I: THE GESTAPO

I: The Emergence of the Gestapo

2: Local Organization of the Gestapo Police Network

II: German Society

3: Würzburg and Lower Franconia Before 1933

4: Anti-Jewish Actions in Lower Franconia After 1933

III: Enforcing Racial Policy

5: The Gestapo and Social Co-Operation the Example of Political Denunciation

6: Racial Policy and Varieties of Non-Compliance

7: Compliance Through Pressure

8: 'Racially Foreign': Racial Policy and Polish Workers

Conclusion

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
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A Century of Jewish Life (Book Five, Chap. II "The End of the War: Pogroms and Treaties of Peace")
by Ismar Elbogen, Moses Hadas. 823 pgs.

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Ismar Elbogen: an Appreciation

Contents

Introduction

Book One the Era of Liberalism 1848-1880

Chapter I: Emancipation in Central and Western Europe

Chapter II: The Jews in Eastern Europe and the Near East

Chapter III Inner Development (1850-1880)

Chapter IV: The Jews in the New World

Book Two: The International of Hate

Chapter I: Antisemitism as a Political Movement

Chapter II: Antisemitism in Western Europe

Cphapter III: The Jews of Russia Under Alexander III

Chapter IV .: The Exodus: Baron Maurice De Hirsch

Book Three: The Jewish Renaissance

Chapter I: The Lovers of Zion: Ahad Ha'Am

Chapter II: Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism

Chapter III: The Jews in the British Empire: Effects of Immigration

Chapter IV: The Jews in America and the Immigrants

Book Four: The World Unrest

Chapter I: The Terror in Rumania and Russia

Chapter II: The Jews of Western Europe Before the First World War

Chapter III: The Jews of America at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Book Five: The First World War and Its Consequences

Chapter I: The World War

Chapter II: The End of the War: Pogroms and Treaties of Peace

Chapter III: The Jews of Europe in the Post-War Era

Chapter IV: The Jews in the United States (1919-1933)

Chapter V: The Jewish National Home in Palestine

Chapter VI: Hitler's Total War Against the Jews

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz. 502 pgs.

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"I find myself unable to praise it too highly. It is quite as if a whole culture had been rescued from the dust, and all of its inner qualities, its half-forgotten voices and passions, have been brought to hidden life.... All persons who care about the possibilities of human exaltation and suffering will find this an endlessly absorbing and endlessly tragic book". -- Irving Howe

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Introduction

Notes to the Introduction

I: Early Hasidism

1: The Proselytizer: Zusya of Annopol

2: A Hasid Prays for Napoleon: Menahem Mendel of Rymanow

3: Hasid of Inwardness: Simha Bunam

4: Rebbe of Mystery: Menahem Mendel of Kotsk

5: The Rebbe of Lubavich Bests Count Uvarov

II: The Haskala

6: I Served Haskala in Russia

7: Rebel and Penitent: Moses Leib Lilienblum

8: Lion of Poets, Pilot of Reform: Judah Leib Gordon

9: A Pilgrimage to Peretz Smolenskin

III: The Quest for Education

10: My Near-Conversion

11: My Educational Mission in Russia

12: From Shtetl to the Capital

13: Memoirs of a Grandmother by Pauline Wengeroff

IV: The World of Tradition

14: Truth and Legend About Israel Salanter by Jacob Mark

15: The Old Man of Slobodka

16: In the Service of Isaac Elhanan Spektor

17: Upholder of the Faith: The Rebbe of Belz

18: The Golden Dynasty: Rebbe of Sadeger

19: The Two Lights of My Life

20: Mother of the Beth Jacob Schools

21: When Hasidim of Ger Became Newsmen

22: From Freethinker to Believer

23: On the Death of Nahman Krochmal

24: Under the Sign of Historicism

25: When Lawyers Studied History

26: My Father, Baron David by Sophie Günzburg

27: How I Became a Yiddish Linguist

28: Balance Sheet of a Jewish Historian

VI: Literary Men

29: Notes for My Literary Biography by Mendele Mokher Sforim

30: I Become a Hebrew Writer

31: Isaac Leibush Peretz As We Knew Him

32: Between Two Worlds: S. Ansky

33: Torments of Berdichevski's Last Days

VII: The Arts

34: Visiting Goldfaden, Father of the Yiddish Stage

35: Joel Engel, Champion of Jewish Music

36: What Is a Jewish Artist?

VII: Marginals

37: Daniel Chwolson: A Christian Jew

38: I Confess to Dostoevsky

39: Jan Bloch: The Loyal Convert

40: Henri Bergson's Old-Warsaw Lineage

41: Neither Pole Nor Jew

IX: In the Zionist Movement

42: One of the People: Ahad Ha'am

43: My Early Days

44: Defenders of the City

45: A Mind of My Own

46: Memoirs by My Typewriter

X: In the Revolutionary Movements

47: Socialist Jews Confront the Pogroms

48: The Jewish Factor in My Socialism

49: When Yiddish Literature Became Socialist

50: The Youth of a Bundist

51: From Pole to Jew

52: A Social Democrat Only

53: Memoirs of an Assassin

XI: In Political Life

54: Jewish Rights Between Red and Black

55: A Good Russian -- A Good Jew

56: In the First Russian Duma

57: Osias Thon: Statesman of Polish Jews

Sources and Acknowledgments

Index
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The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Anti-Semitism (Discussion of pogroms begins on p. 189)
by Edward H. Flannery. 369 pgs.

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The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism

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Introduction

1: The Ancient World

2: The Conflict of the Church and Synagogue

3: A Critical Century

4: Shifting Fortunes

5: The Vale of Tears

6: An Oasis and an Ordeal

7: The Age of the Ghetto

8: The Struggle for Emancipation

9: The Racial Myth and Its Consequences

10: A War Within a War

11: The Final Solution

12: Red Antisemitism

13: Polite Antisemitism

14: The Last Twenty-Five Years

15: The Roots of Antisemitism

Notes

Index
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The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-1945 ("Local Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Occupied Territories of Eastern Poland, June-July 1941" begins on p. 173)
by M.E. Sharpe. 260 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part 1: The Holocaust In The Soviet Union

Soviet Reactions to the Holocaust, 1945-1991

The Holocaust in The Soviet Mirror

A Monument Over Babi Yar?

Part 2: Soviet Policies During the Holocaust

Escape and Evacuation Of Soviet Jews at the Time Of the Nazi Invasion: Policies and Realities

A Soviet View of Palestine On The Eve of the Holocaust

Soviet Jewry in the Thinking Of The Yishuv Leadership, 1939-1943: Some Preliminary Observations

Part 3: Regional Studies

The Holocaust in Transnistria: A Special Case of Genocide

The Jewish Community In The Soviet-Annexed Territories On the Eve of the Holocaust: A Social Scientist's View

Local Anti-Jewish Pogroms In The Occupied Territories Of Eastern Poland, June-July 1941

The Two Ghettos in Riga, Latvia, 1941-1943

The Physical and Metaphysical Dimensions of the Extermination Of the Jews in Lithuania

Part 4: Sources for Study Of The Holocaust In The Soviet Union

The Jewish Population Losses Of The Ussr from the Holocaust: A Demographic Approach

Captured Nazi Documents On the Destruction of Jews In the Soviet Union

"Yizker-Bikher" as Sources On Jewish Communities in Soviet Belorussia and Soviet Ukraine During the Holocaust

Polish Jewish Officers Who Were Killed in Katyn: An Ongoing Investigation in Light Of Documents Recently Released By the Ussr

About the Contributors

Index
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The Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the American Army (Discussion of pogroms begins on p. 79)
by Joseph W. Bendersky. 539 pgs.

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While the pervasive anti-Semitism of "ordinary" Germans in the first half of the twentieth century has received much attention lately, very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, Joseph Bendersky argues that such racism permeated the highest ranks of the U.S. military throughout the past century, having a very real effect on policy decisions. Through ten years of research in more than thirty-five archives, the author has uncovered irrefutable evidence of an endemic and virulent anti-Semitism throughout the Army Corps from the turn of the century right up to the 1970s. These sources reveal how the "Secret Americans" (a group of officers who described themselves as true patriots and who felt silenced by Roosevelt) were convinced of the physical, intellectual, and moral inferiority of Jews and feared that their"superior" Anglo-Saxon/Nordic culture was threatened by a radical and destabilizing Jewish conspiracy.
This fully developed and clearly articulated perspective had a direct effect on policy discussions and decisions, affecting such matters as immigration, refugees, military strategy, and the establishment of Israel. Secret agents scoured Europe in a desperate attempt to prove the existence of the Jewish conspiracy. General Moseley, a close friend of Eisenhower's and one of the Army's most decorated officers, demanded the sterilization of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. During the war, the Chief of t

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Acknowledgments

Prologue: Jewish Files

Chapter 1: The Officers' Worldview, 1900-1939

Chapter 2: Military Intelligence and "International Jewry," 1917-1919

Chapter 3: Jews and Geopolitics, 1918-1924

Chapter 4: The Nordic Defense of America, 1918-1924

Chapter 5: Educating Officer Elites: the Army War College, 1919-1933

Chapter 6: Quiet Continuities, 1925-1936

Chapter 7: The Officer Corps and the Third Reich, 1933-1939

Chapter 8: War College, War Clouds, 1933-1941

Chapter 9: Officers and the Holocaust, 1940-1945

Chapter 10: Survivors, Refugees, and the Birth of Israel, 1945-1949

Chapter 11: Change and Continuity in the Postwar Era, 1945-1960

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Because They Were Jews: A History of Anti-Semitism
by Meyer Weinberg. 288 pgs.

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In Because They Were Jews, Meyer Weinberg examines the history of antisemitism in twelve representative countries from ancient times to the present. His selection includes the eight European countries with the largest number of Jews, as well as countries where Jews amounted to less than one percent of the population. He raises questions about traditional approaches to the study of antisemitism and chooses instead to analyze it as a systematic pattern emerging from particular political situation. A comprehensive discussion includes anti-Jewish actions in education, employment, housing, government and religion in each of the twelve countries. Concluding chapters integrate the material on each country and analyze similarities and differences. A bibliographic essay provides an exhaustive guide to the English-language references on this topic.

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World History

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

1: A Noahs Ark of Bigotry: Argentina

2: A Tradition of Tolerance: Bulgaria

3: A Cycle of Centuries: Egypt

4: Isolated Fidelity: Ethiopia

5: From Jew to Citizen: France

6: The Classic Catastrophe: Germany

7: On Being Used and Being Useful: Hungary

8: Two Destinies in One Land: Italy

9: The Continuity of Oppression: Poland

10: The Struggle for Civic Status: Rumania

11: Long Winters of Dark Nights: Russia/USSR

12: The Toleration of Tolerance: United States

13: Similarities and Differences

14: The World of Antisemitism

Bibliographic Essay

Index

About the Author
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Trotsky and the Jews (Chap. 3 "The Pogrom Obsession")
by Joseph Nedava. 299 pgs.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 Russian Jewish Environment: Incubator of Revolution

Chapter 2 the Jewish Background

Chapter 3 the Pogrom Obsession

Chapter 4 the Implications of the Beilis Case

Chapter 6 Attitude to Religion and to the Evsektsia

Chapter 7 Jewish Units in the Red Army

Chapter 8 a Vicarious Jewish Complex

Chapter 9 Extent of Jewish Participation in the October Revolution

Chapter 10 Trotsky's Career Through Jewish Eyes

Chapter 11 Anti-Semitic Overtones in the Struggle for Power

Chapter 12 the Moscow Trials

Chapter 13 Zionism: "A Tragic Mirage"

Chapter 14 Biro-Bidzhan: "A Bureaucratic Farce"

Chapter 15 in the Role of a Jewish Cassandra

Chapter 16 the Crucible of a Historic Confrontation

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots, Modern Perspectives (Chap. 8 "Christians and Jews and the ‘Dialogue of Violence’ in Late Imperial Russia")
by Anna Sapir Abulafia. 205 pgs.

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Thoroughly exploring the history of the conflict between Christians and Jews from medieval to modern times, this wide-ranging volume includes newly uncovered material from the recently opened post-Soviet archives. Anna Sapir Abulafia delineates controversial issues of inter-faith confrontation, and a number of eminent scholars from around the globe discuss openly and objectively the dynamics of Jewish creative response in the face of violence. Through the analysis of the histories of the Christian and Jewish religious traditions, this book provides a valuable understanding of their relationship as a modern day phenomenon.

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List of Abbreviations

Notes on the Contributors

Part I: Studies on Religious Violence between Christians and Jews

1: Christian Violence and the Crusades

2: The Anti-Jewish Violence of 1096: Perpetrators and Dynamics

Notes

3: Christian Theology and Anti-Jewish Violence in the Middle Ages: Connections and Disjunctions

4: The Intellectual and Spiritual Quest for Christ and Central Medieval Persecution of Jews

5: ‘They Tell Lies: You Ate the Man’: Jewish Reactions to Ritual Murder Accusations

6: Anti-Jewish Violence and the Place of the Jews in Christendom and in Islam: a Paradigm

7: At the Frontiers of Faith

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8: Christians and Jews and the ‘Dialogue of Violence’ in Late Imperial Russia

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Part II: Round Table Discussion

9: Religious Violence in Past and Future Perspective

10: Some Thoughts on Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Britain

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11: Religious Violence

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12: Religious Violence: Educational Perspectives

Notes

Bibliography

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Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath (Chap.17 "The Cracow Pogrom of August 1945: A Narrative Reconstruction")
by Joshua D. Zimmerman. 324 pgs.

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This collection of essays attempts to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during and after World War II. Topics covered include the pre-war legacy of anti-semitism; and the official Polish response to the Nazi Final Solution.

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Preface

Notes

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Contested Memories

Introduction: Changing Perceptions in the Historiography of Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World War

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Part I: The Prewar Legacy

Chapter 1: Zionism in Poland and the Territorialist Projects of the Polish Authorities, 1936–1939

Notes

Chapter 2: The Transmutation of a Symbol and Its Legacy in the Holocaust

Notes

Part II: The Widening Gap, 1939–1941

Chapter 3: Psychological Distance Between Poles and Jews in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw

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Chapter 4: Specific Strategies of Survival

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Chapter 5: On the Subject of Jewish “collaboration” in Soviet-Occupied Eastern Poland, 1939–1941

Notes

Chapter 6: The Case of Jedwabne in the Summer of 1941

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Part III: Institutional Polish Responses to the Final Solution

Chapter 7: What Conditioned Its Actions and Inactions?

Notes

Chapter 8: The Attitude of the Polish Underground to the Jewish Question During the Second World War

Notes

Chapter 9: Polish Catholics and the Jews During the Holocaust

Notes

Part IV: Poles Through Jewish Eyes

Chapter 10: Poland and the Polish Nation as Reflected in the Jewish Underground Press

Notes

Chapter 11: Jewish and Polish Perceptions of the Shoah as Reflected in Wartime Diaries and Memoirs

Notes

Chapter 12: Polish-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Emmanuel Ringelblum

Notes

Chapter 13: Non-Jews in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro

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Part V: The Destruction of Polish Jewry and Polish Popular Opinion

Chapter 14: Polish-Jewish Relations in Occupied Warsaw, 1940–1945

Notes

Chapter 15: A Gendered Comparison

Notes

Chapter 16: Some Issues in Jewish-Polish Relations During the Second World War

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Part VI: Aftermath

Chapter 17: A Narrative Reconstruction

Notes

Chapter 18: The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Attitudes in Postwar Poland

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Chapter 19: Jewish Responses to Antisemitism in Poland, 1944–1947

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Chapter 20: Teaching About the Holocaust in Poland

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Chapter 21: Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations

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Chapter 22: A Personal Account

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Contributors

Index

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