Description
About the Author
Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois. He is the author and coeditor of seven books, including The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town. Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, and most recently of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.
Reviews
A terrifying but necessary account of the innumerable instances of violence against Jews in eastern Europe. Carefully selected by leading experts, a multitude of voices speaks to us: voices of victims who often suffered unspeakable horrors; hateful voices of those who incited the violence; sympathetic and often helpless voices of journalists, writers, physicians, officials trying to find words encompassing the suffering. * Francois Guesnet, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London *
Eugene Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad have done an enormous service by making this varied set of sources on pogroms available to an English-speaking audience. The selection of documents and arrangements of topics opens new vistas on this horrifying issue. The book guides the reader through thorny problems of definition and explanation in clear, interesting, and non-polemical ways, making it a perfect introduction and teaching resource. * Valerie Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan *
Awards
Winner of Winner, Reference Award, Association of Jewish Libraries.
Book Information
ISBN 9780190060084
Author Eugene M. Avrutin
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 602g
Dimensions(mm) 259mm * 182mm * 18mm