Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois. He is the author and coeditor of seven books, including The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town.Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, and most recently of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.

A terrifying but necessary account of the innumerable instances of violence against Jews in eastern Europe. Carefully selected by leading experts, a multitude of voices speaks to us: voices of victims who often suffered unspeakable horrors; hateful voices of those who incited the violence; sympathetic and often helpless voices of journalists, writers, physicians, officials trying to find words encompassing the suffering.

Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois. He is the author and coeditor of seven books, including The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town.Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, and most recently of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.

A terrifying but necessary account of the innumerable instances of violence against Jews in eastern Europe. Carefully selected by leading experts, a multitude of voices speaks to us: voices of victims who often suffered unspeakable horrors; hateful voices of those who incited the violence; sympathetic and often helpless voices of journalists, writers, physicians, officials trying to find words encompassing the suffering.

Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois. He is the author and coeditor of seven books, including The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town.Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, and most recently of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.

A terrifying but necessary account of the innumerable instances of violence against Jews in eastern Europe. Carefully selected by leading experts, a multitude of voices speaks to us: voices of victims who often suffered unspeakable horrors; hateful voices of those who incited the violence; sympathetic and often helpless voices of journalists, writers, physicians, officials trying to find words encompassing the suffering.