Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882

by John Doyle Klier

Book Overview

Anti-Jewish pogroms rocked the Russian Empire in 1881-2, plunging both the Jewish community and the imperial authorities into crisis. Focusing on a wide range of responses to the pogroms, this book offers the most comprehensive, balanced, and complex study of the crisis to date. It presents a nuanced account of the diversity of Jewish political reactions and introduces a wealth of new sources covering Russian and other non-Jewish reactions to these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107634156
• ISBN13: 9781107634152
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"