Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Irina Marin is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She has taught and researched at University College London, University of Oxford, University of Leicester and the Vienna Institute for Holocaust Studies. She is the author of Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe (2012).

“Irina Marin’s thoroughly researched book is a major contribution to the historiography of the region. Its main strengths reside in its wide-ranging scope, rich and varied source material, inspiring combination of social history … and elements of social psychology, and skillful switching between different scales and spaces in order to place the Romanian case in a broad comparative context. This transnational and entangled study of violence and antisemitism will surely interest readers across the ‘triple frontier,’ and far beyond it.” (Andrei Cusco, Antisemitism Studies, Vol.6 (1), 2022)“This thoroughly researched book explores the causes of the 1907 peasant uprising, which was the most violent episode ever to occur in Romania during peacetime. … The great strength of the book is that it takes as its point of departure a series of singular events which took place in the spring of 1907 and paints a panoramic view of the Romanian political, economic, social, and legal system at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” (Luminita Gatejel, Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 7 (4), 2018)

• 1. ​Introduction: A Peasant Uprising on the Edge of a Triple Frontier.- 2. Rumour and Violence: the Making of an Uprising.- 3. Jews, Strangers and Foreigners.- 4. The Peasant Question.- 5. Eyes of the State.- 5. Paper Worlds.- 7. Diplomacy of the Uprising.- 8. Conclusions.- Index.