The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia

by Daniel Unowsky

In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, in present-day Poland and Ukraine. Jewish-owned homes and businesses were ransacked and looted, and Jews were assaulted, threatened, and humiliated, though not killed. Emperor Franz Joseph signed off on a state of emergency in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799822
• ISBN13: 9780804799829
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"