Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century”

Saturday 21 May evening program: reception and buffet at home of David Gaunt (transport will be arranged to/from the hotel)

Day 1, SUNDAY 22 May:

venue at conference room in Nordic Light Hotel, Vasagatan

10:00 – 12:00 I. New Theoretical Approaches

Chair/discussant: David Gaunt, Sodertorn University College, Oleg Budnitski, Russian Academy of Sciences

Holquist, Peter, Cornell University
“Forms and Varieties of Violence in the Russian Occupation of Armenia 1915-1918”

Klier, John, University College London
“Were the Russian Pogroms a ‘Deadly Ethnic Riot’?”

Lohr, Eric American University
“The War Pogrom”

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

13:30-15:30 II. Pre-Modern Episodes

Chair/discussant: David Gaunt (preliminary)

Verbickiene, Jurgita, Center for the Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews and University of Vilnius
“The Myth of Ritual Murder in Multicultural Society in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania”

Kleinmann, Yvonne Ilka, Simon Dubnow Institut, Leipzig
“A Jew before a Catholic Court – The Death Sentence for the Inn-keeper Szmul Dubi’nski, Rzeszow 1726”

15:30-16:00 Coffee and Tea

III. 16:00-18:00 Twentieth-Century Pogroms

Chair/discussant: Berkowitz, Michael, University College London

Levin, Vladimir, Hebrew University Jerusalem
“Preventing Pogroms: Different Paradigms in Jewish Politics in Early 20th Century Russia”

Budnitskii, Oleg, Russian Academy of Sciences
“The Pogroms of the Russian Civil War Period”

Buldakov, Vladimir, Russian Academy of Science and Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
“Freedom, shortage, violence: the origin of ‘revolutionary’ pogroms in Russia 1917-1918”

Day 2, MONDAY 23 May:

venue Sodertorn University College (Train station Flemingsberg) conference room MB (transport from hotel by Commuter train – the station is beside the Nordic Light Hotel)

IV. 9:00-11:00 Foreign Responses

Chair/discussant: Bartal, Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Green, Abigail, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
“Anti-Jewish Violence and the Philanthropic Response”

Johnson, Samantha, Cardiff University
“British Intellectual Discourse and Russia’s Pogrom Phenomenon 1881-1906”

Zhuravleva, Viktoria, Russian State University for the Humanities
“Anti-Jewish Violence in Russia and American Missionary Idea 1881-1917”

11:00-11:30 Coffee and Tea

11:30-13:30 V. Literature and the Pogroms

Chair/discussant: (to be announced – perhaps Prof Irina Sandomirskaya, Sodertorn University College)

Friedrich, Agnieska, Institute of Polish Philology, University of Gdansk
“The Image of the Warsaw Pogrom 1881 in Polish Literature”

Hetenyi, Zsuzsa, Hungary
“Three Serpents with Tongues and Eyes of Flame: the 1905-pogroms in Russian-Jewish Literature (Approaches of S. An-skii, A. Kipen, D. Aizman and I. Babel)”

Belova, Olga, Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
“Anti-Jewish Violence in Folk Narratives of the Slavs”

13:30-14:45 LUNCH

VI. 14:45-17:00 Ethnicizing the Pogroms

Chair/discussant: Ben-Israel, Hedva, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Abramson, Henry, Florida Atlantic University
“Ukrainians, Jews and Popular Violence: Continuities and Discontinuities 1648-1991”

Le Foll, Claire, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris
“The Byelorussia Case in the 1881-1882 Wave of Pogroms: Conditions and Motives of an Absence of Violence”

Staliunas, Darius, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius
“The Preconditions for the Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Lithuania from the Nineteenth Century to 1940”

17:00 departure to go to venue for public lecture session

Public lecture Moday 23 May 18:30-20:30 Levandehistoria, Nygatan 10-12

Engel, David, New York University
“What’s in a Pogrom. European Jews in the Age of Violence”

This lecture is given in cooperation with the Forum for Living History and the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism.

Day 3, 24 May:

venue conference room at Nordic Light Hotel

9:00-11:00 VII. Regional Perspectives

Chair/discussant: Peter Holquist, Cornell University

Kalmina, Lilia, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude,
“Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Siberia”

Gatagova, Ludmilla, Russian Academy of Science
“Anti-Jewish Violence in the Northern Caucasus in the 1920s”

Zeltser, Arkadi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The Soviet Modernization and Interethnic Conflicts: the Case of Belorussia in the1920s and 1930s”

11:00-11:30 Coffee and Tea

VIII. 11:30-13:00 Living with the Threat

Chair/discussant:

Dekel-Chen, Jonathan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Defusing the Ethnic Bomb: Resolving Local Conflict through Philanthropy in the Interwar USSR”

Meir, Natan, University of Southampton
“The Sword Hanging Over Their Heads: The Significance of Pogrom for Russian-Jewish Everyday Life and Self-Understanding”

13:00-13:30 Closing remarks of the conference

Frankel, Jonathan, Hebrew University Jerusalem
“Historical Patterns of Ant-Jewish Violence”

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