Judge's book is the best to date on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In
seven gracefully written chapters, the author lays out the
background of the Jewish question in Russia, profiles the city of
Kishinev, narrates the events leading up to and included in the
pogrom, and analyzes its causes and effects. -Choice A detailed
re-examination of the notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903. -East
European Jewish Affairs In February of 1903, in a town in the
southwestern part of the Russian empire, a peasant stumbled upon
the corpse of 14-year old Mikhail Rybachenko, bruised and covered
with stab wounds, in a garden. The murder immediately fueled wild
rumors that he had been killed by local Jews in need of his
Christian blood to prepare their matzah bread. Panic rumors,
grounded in sinister superstitions of Jewish sorcery and ritual
murder, quickly spread to nearby towns. By April, they had hit
Kishinev -- a growing metropolis of 100,000 inhabitants rife with
the unrest of rapid expansion, ethnic rivalry, revolutionary
agitation, and anti-Semitism -- with full force. The resulting
massacre left dozens dead, and hundreds wounded, maimed, widowed,
orphaned or homeless. This is the story of Kishinev. In this
extensively researched book, Edward Judge examines these
anti-Jewish riots, detailing their background, cause, and
aftermath. He traces the evolution of the riots, analyzing the
broader impact of imperial policies, urbanization, nationalism,
population growth, and revolutionary activism upon the Jewish
situation in Russia. Recounting the activities and attitudes of
anti- semitic agitators and Kishinev officials, the book examines
the spiral of violence, the inaction of the authorities in the wake
of the pogrom, the storm of indignation that followed the pogrom,
and the efforts of tsarist officials to counter subsequent negative
publicity. EASTER IN KISHINEV also portrays the investigation of
the disorders and the trials of the rioters and carefully considers
the question of government responsibility for the outbreak of the
pogrom.
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