Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

by Jeffrey S Kopstein, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jason Wittenberg

Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogroms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501715259
• ISBN13: 9781501715259
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher