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What were the reactions of contemporaries and eyewitnesses to antisemitic riots and popular violence in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? How did their responses differ from our own understanding of pogroms and their history? In this half-day workshop leading scholars will examine this question in three different contexts: nineteenth-century Germany, the Russian Empire in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and Poland in the aftermath of the Second World War.
- Between Riot and Pogrom. Anti-Jewish Violence in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Professor Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin - Pogroms in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe – the Archetype of Anti-Jewish Violence?
Dr François Guesnet, University College London - Anti-Jewish Violence and Pogroms in Poland at the End of the Second World War: Explanations and Consequences
Dr Hugo Service, University of Oxford
The workshop will provide an opportunity both to examine reactions to these pogroms in their individual contexts and also to draw comparisons between the different cases.