RT Book
T1 Legacy of blood: Jews, pogroms, and ritual murder in the lands of the Soviets
A1 Bemporad, Elissa ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PP New York, NY, United States of America
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1664944095
AB "Pogroms and blood libels constitute the two classical and most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism. They were often closely intertwined in history and memory, not least because the accusation of blood libel, the allegation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for ritual purposes, frequently triggered anti-Jewish violence. Such events were and are considered central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country on earth with large scale anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. Boasting its break from the tsarist period, the Soviet regime proudly claimed to have eradicated these forms of antisemitism. But, alas, life was much more complicated. The phenomenon and the memory of pogroms and blood libels in different areas of interwar Soviet Union-including Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia and Central Asia-as well as, after World War II, in the newly annexed territories of Lithuania, Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia are a reminder of continuities in the midst of revolutionary ruptures. The persistence, the permutation, and the responses to anti-Jewish violence and memories of violence suggest that Soviet Jews (and non-Jews alike) cohabited with a legacy of blood that did not vanish. This book traces the "afterlife" of these extreme manifestations of antisemitism in the USSR, and in doing so sheds light on the broader question of the changing position of Jews in Soviet society. One notable rupture in manifestations of antisemitism from tsarist to Soviet times included the virtual disappearance-at least during the interwar period-of the tight link between pogroms and blood allegations, indeed a common feature in the waves of anti-Jewish violence that erupted during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." --
NO Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 207-226. - Register
CN DS135.E83
SN 9780190466459
K1 Jews : Europe, Eastern : History : 20th century
K1 Pogroms : Europe, Eastern : History : 20th century
K1 Blood accusation : Europe, Eastern : History : 20th century
K1 Europe, Eastern : Ethnic relations