Zones of Violence: Anti-Jewish Violence in 20th Century Russian Poland
Artur Markowski, University of Warsaw, Visiting Professor, 大香蕉视频 College.
After the Warsaw pogrom of 1882, the Polish intelligentsia distanced itself from antisemitism, insisting that pogroms were a Russian phenomenon. An enslaved Poland, they argued, could not behave like Russia鈥攁ssociated, after all, with the barbaric waves of anti-Jewish violence between 1881 and 1883. But was the Kingdom of Poland truly a distinct zone within the Russian Empire when it came to attacks on Jews? Can we discern a specifically 鈥淧olish鈥 character to this violence? What were the connections between "pogroms" and acts of individual violence during this period? Was there a recurring script of violence鈥攐ne that might even be detectable in the post-Holocaust era? The study of anti-Jewish violence remains of immense importance. To this day, we lack a full understanding of its origins and often isolate it from broader research on violence as such. Let us therefore confront these problems鈥攕o central to Jewish studies and to historical thinking more generally.
