Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey
S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave
of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish
and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of
the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities
erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In
fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogroms in 1941, and
most ordinary gentiles never attacked Jews. Intimate Violence is a
novel social-scientific explanation of ethnic violence and the
Holocaust. It locates the roots of violence in efforts to maintain
Polish and Ukrainian dominance rather than in anti-Semitic hatred
or revenge for communism. In doing so, it cuts through painful
debates about relative victimhood that are driven more by
metaphysical beliefs in Jewish culpability than empirical evidence
of perpetrators and victims. Pogroms, they conclude, were difficult
to start, and local conditions in most places prevented their
outbreak despite a general anti-Semitism and the collapse of the
central state. Kopstein and Wittenberg shed new light on the
sources of mass ethnic violence and the ways in which such gruesome
acts might be avoided.
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