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Great Variance: Jewish use of atrocity stories attributed to Russian pogroms

February 28, 2024/11 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Horus

The refugees whose impact this series will examine are, in the first place, the Jews who immigrated to Britain in the later decades of the 19th century. Small numbers of Jews already lived in Britain before a much larger wave of Ashkenazi immigration from Eastern Europe occurred over several decades from the 1870s. Immigration was […]

A Critical Look at the Polish ‘Pogroms’ of 1914–1920

January 3, 2022/51 Comments/in Featured Articles, Jews in Economy/Finance/by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

“Jewish reports tended toward exaggeration.” William Hagen, Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920, 173. “All the methods of malevolent propaganda are a menace from which Poland is a notable sufferer.” Major General Edgar Jadwin, U.S. Army, 1920 Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920 William W. Hagan Cambridge University Press, 2018 I recently had the good fortune to […]

Petliura and the Pogroms in Interwar Ukraine, Part 2

September 29, 2017/5 Comments/in European Nationalism, Featured Articles/by Thomas Jones

Go to Part 1 Petliura had to lie when he claimed nationhood for Ukraine was widely supported by the Jewish community. He constantly tried to get Ukrainians to care as deeply for Jewish issues as he did. Jewish parties were willing to work with the Ukrainians, but they abstained from coming out for or against […]

Petliura and the Pogroms in Interwar Ukraine, Part 1

September 27, 2017/27 Comments/in European Nationalism, Featured Articles/by Thomas Jones

The fall of the Romanov dynasty saw Russia descend into chaos and even as the First World War was raging, yet more conflicts would spring up. In Ukraine, the violent confusion that came with the end of the Romanov’s empire has become particularly controversial because of the impact it had upon Jewry living there. One […]

Myth and the Russian Pogroms Part 3 – The Jewish Role

May 13, 2012/64 Comments/in Anti-Semitism, Featured Articles/by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

We continue our series of essays examining the Russian Pogroms with this essay on the part played by Jews in provoking the disturbances. As stated in Part Two, one of the key problems with existing historiography on the pogroms (and ‘anti-Semitism’ generally) is that these narratives invariably argue that the plight of the Jews was […]

Myth and the Russian Pogroms, Part 2: Inventing Atrocities

May 11, 2012/80 Comments/in Anti-Jewish Writing, Anti-Semitism, Featured Articles, Historical Anti-Jewish Writing/by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

Having grounded ourselves in the history of Russia’s Jewish Question, it is now time for us to turn our attention to the anti-Jewish riots of the 1880s. The following essay will first provide the reader with the standard narrative of these events advanced by Jewish contemporaries and the majority of Jewish historians — a narrative which […]

Revisiting the 19th-Century Russian Pogroms, Part 1: Russia’s Jewish Question

May 8, 2012/138 Comments/in Anti-Semitism, Featured Articles, Historical Anti-Jewish Writing/by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

The anti-Jewish riots, or “pogroms” of late 19th-century Russia represent one of the most decisive periods in modern Jewish, if not world, history. Most obviously, the riots had demographic implications for western countries – around 80% of today’s western Diaspora Jews are descendants of those Jews who left Russia and its environs during the period […]