Intimate Violence

Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20003747
AutoresJeffrey S Kopstein (0000-0002-4585-1920), Jason Wittenberg (0000-0002-4680-1052), Jeffrey Kopstein
Año2018
Páginas192
Fecha de publicación2018-06-15
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaIntimate Violence (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/cornell/9781501715259.001.0001
OpenAlexW4231621613
Open LibraryOL30597102M
ISBN9781501715259
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDWDFEDwAAQBAJ
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? This book address that age-old question through an examination of a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the June, 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Exploiting the collapse of state authority, some Poles and Ukrainians viciously attacked their Jewish neighbors. Against explanations that focus on antisemitism or alleged Jewish support for communism, Intimate Violence argues that pogroms were most likely to occur where Jews had sought national equality with Poles and Ukrainians prior to the outbreak of war. In these communities, where Jews challenged Poles’ and Ukrainians’ dreams of national dominance, local non-Jews were more likely to perpetrate violence and less likely to protect their Jewish neighbors. Intimate Violence is a novel social scientific explanation of ethnic violence and the Holocaust that combines statistical analysis of an original data set with archival research and case studies. It cuts through painful debates about relative victimhood that are driven more by metaphysical beliefs in Jewish culpability than empirical evidence of actual perpetrators and victims. In doing so it sheds new light on the roots of mass ethnic violence and the ways in which such gruesome acts might be avoided

Antisemitism · Communism · Criminology · Culpability · Dominance (genetics) · Ethnic group · Genealogy · Judaism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Ukrainian · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · History · Law · ethnic relations · Europe · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) · Jewish · Jews · Persecutions · Pogroms