Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish
statehood out of World War I and Polish-Soviet War. William W.
Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how
they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios
dramatizing popular anti-Jewish fears and resentments. While
scholarship on modern anti-Semitism has stressed its ideological
inspiration ('print anti-Semitism'), this study shows that
anti-Jewish violence by perpetrators among civilians and soldiers
expressed magic-infused anxieties and longings for redemption from
present threats and suffering ('folk anti-Semitism'). Illustrated
with contemporary photographs and constructed from extensive, newly
discovered archival sources from three continents, this is an
innovative work in east European history. Using extensive
first-person testimonies, it reveals gaps - but also
correspondences - between popular attitudes and those of the
political elite. The pogroms raged against the conscious will of
new Poland's governors whilst Christians high and low sometimes
sought, even successfully, to block them.
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