How insulted religious feelings turned into pogroms: Lithuania in 1900.
This article is devoted to a single wave of anti-Jewish violence in Lithuania which spread through northern Lithuania during the first half of the summer of 1900. It claims that specific incidents that took place during the first half of 1900 at Konstantinovo (news of an allegedly kidnapped girl, th...
| Published in: | East European Jewish Affairs Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 119 - 143 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=90412770&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 90412770 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13501674 UPE jtl: East European Jewish Affairs issn: 13501674 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2013 vid: 43 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 90412770 10.1080/13501674.2013.813128 ppf: 119 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 159KB tig: atl: How insulted religious feelings turned into pogroms: Lithuania in 1900. aug: au: Staliūnas, Darius affil: Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, Lithuania su: Pogroms Jews Antisemitism Blood accusation Nationalism Lithuanian history Peasants Catholic Church Twentieth century History History of antisemitism Lithuania Europe sug: subj: Lithuania Europe Pogroms Jews Antisemitism Blood accusation Nationalism Lithuanian history Peasants Catholic Church Twentieth century History History of antisemitism keyword: antisemitism Blood Libel peasants pogroms religious identity rumours Russian Empire ab: This article is devoted to a single wave of anti-Jewish violence in Lithuania which spread through northern Lithuania during the first half of the summer of 1900. It claims that specific incidents that took place during the first half of 1900 at Konstantinovo (news of an allegedly kidnapped girl, the so-called Jewish “procession” and a domestic dispute between Jews and the priest's workmen) were among the most important reasons for the pogroms. At the same time, it is clear that there were some more general (structural) changes in this society which facilitated the occurrence of violence (changes in the economy, growing Lithuanian nationalism, antisemitic tendencies, and pogroms in the south of the Romanov empire in the early 1880s, because they established the idea that violence against Jews was somehow legitimate). Peasants in the Panevėžys and Šiauliai districts took up violence against Jews because, as they understood it, an offence had been committed which no one else (especially the authorities) would put right and so Jews would go unpunished. Uncontrolled rumours ruled the mobs. Since Catholic peasant religious sentiments had been affected the most, it was common religious identity that drew people into a temporary community of action. When Jews were beaten in public spaces, the doors and windows of their houses smashed, the Jews were not only being punished for their alleged offences, but being shown the clearly delineated boundaries within the local social hierarchy. In public life, Jews were supposed to submit to the monopoly of power enjoyed by the Catholic community. Thus, this wave of anti-Jewish violence essentially differs from the deadly pogroms that took place in the early twentieth century in other gubernias of the Jewish Pale of Settlement. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of East European Jewish Affairs is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: East European Jewish Affairs holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2013 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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