In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coas
Relations between Jews and their neighbors in eastern Europe have long been perceived - both in the popular mind and in conventional scholarship - as being in a permanent state of conflict. This book
Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating ne
