The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917

ISBN-13: 9783030997908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Semion Goldin

Opis

This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to the army and military authorities as the 'gravediggers' of the Jews’ fragile co-existence with the tsarist regime. It focuses on various aspects of the Russian army’s brutal treatment of Jews living in or near the Eastern Front, where three quarters of European Jewry were living when the war began. At the same time, it shows the enormous harm this anti-Jewish campaign wreaked on the Russian empire’s economy, finances, public security, and international status. 

Recenzje

"Semion Goldin's work on the Russian Jewish community and the imperial army during WWI is a fascinating foray into the Russian Jewry's impossible conundrum between 'libel, persecution, and reaction' and into its traumatic, violent, chaotic, and complex encounter with the dark side of modernity. This work will surely remain the definitive treatment of the subject for some time to come." (Andrei Cusco, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, May 1, 2023)

Spis treści

1. The Russian Army and the Jews at the Start of the Twentieth Century.- 2. Army Authority and Activity in the Sphere of Civilian Administration.- 3. The Russian Army Command and the Negative Stereotype of the Jew.- 4. Deportations of the Jewish Population and Hostage Taking, 1914-1915.- 5. The Military Authorities and the Jews.- 6.  Soldiers, Officers and the Jewish Population of the Frontal Zone.- 7. 'The Jewish Question' and the Political Situation in Russia.

O autorze

Semion Goldin is Senior Research Fellow at the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Israel.

Blurb

This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to the army and military authorities as the 'gravediggers' of the Jews’ fragile co-existence with the tsarist regime. It focuses on various aspects of the Russian army’s brutal treatment of Jews living in or near the Eastern Front, where three quarters of European Jewry were living when the war began. At the same time, it shows the enormous harm this anti-Jewish campaign wreaked on the Russian empire’s economy, finances, public security, and international status.

 

Semion Goldin is Senior Research Fellow at the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Israel.