Jonathan Dekel-Chen is a senior lecturer in modern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.David Gaunt is Professor of History at Södertörn University in Sweden.Natan M. Meir holds the Lorry I. Lokey Chair in Judaic Studies at Portland State University.Israel Bartal is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

"Anti-Jewish Violence, a major scholarly achievement, is indispensable reading for everybody interested in Russian Jewish history. September, 2011"—H-Judaic"This volume is an important contribution to the study of Jewish-Russian relations from the end of the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth century. . . . [T]he articles complement each other and create an interesting and complex narrative of inter-ethnic relations in Eastern Europe and the USSR, drawing on new archival research from across the post-Soviet space."—Slavonic and East European Review"[A] very welcome addition to collections on Jewish history and society..."—Religious Studies Review"Some of the newest and most innovative work on the sources of, reactions to, and representations of anti-Jewish violence and pogroms in eastern Europe."—Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

• Preface: A Tribute to John D. KlierAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction / David Gaunt, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal1. What's in a Pogrom? European Jews in the Age of Violence / David EngelPart 1. Twentieth-Century Pogroms2. 1915 and the War Pogrom Paradigm in the Russian Empire / Eric Lohr3. The Role of Personality in the First (1914–1915) Russian Occupation of Galicia and Bukovina / Peter Holquist4. Freedom, Shortages, Violence: The Origins of the "Revolutionary Anti-Jewish Pogrom " in Russia, 1917–1918 / Vladimir P. BuldakovPart 2. Responses to Pogroms5. Preventing Pogroms: Patterns in Jewish Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Russia / Vladimir Levin6. "The Sword Hanging over Their Heads": The Significance of Pogrom for Russian Jewish Everyday Life and Self-Understanding (The Case of Kiev) / Natan M. MeirPart 3. Regional Perspectives7. The Possibility of the Impossible: Pogroms in Eastern Siberia / Lilia Kalmina8. Was Lithuania a Pogrom-Free Zone? (1881–1940) / Vladas Sirutaviĉius and Darius Staliūnas9. The Missing Pogroms of Belorussia, 1881–1882: Conditions and Motives of an Absence of Violence / Claire Le Foll10. Ethnic Conflict and Modernization in the Interwar Period: The Case of Soviet Belorussia / Arkadi Zeltser11. Defusing the Ethnic Bomb: Resolving Local Conflict through Philanthropy in the Interwar USSR / Jonathan Dekel-ChenGlossaryList of ContributorsIndex