Pogroms, Peasants, Jews

A wide-ranging examination of popular and political attitudes towards East European Jews in Nineteenth and early Twentieth century Britain, focusing on the degree to which British intellectual life forged transnational associations that facilitated the transmission of anti-Jewish prejudice.

Autorentext
SAM JOHNSON is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements List of illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: Confidence and Uncertainty: New Jewish Questions Romania: Cruelty to an Unprecedented Pitch, 1860s and 1870s Imperial Russia: Troubles in the South, 1880s and 1890s Romania and Kishinev: Crises Intertwined, 1900-1906 Partitioned Poland: Physical and Ideological Encounters, 1890s-1914 Imperial Russia: the International Arena and the Great War, 1907-1917 Britain and Poland: Propaganda, Pogroms and Independence, 1914-1925 Who were the Jews? Ostjuden in the British Mindset, 1867-1925 Bibliography