A historian's reconstruction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that swept Ukraine during the civil war following the Russian Revolution, drawing on newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records and official orders held in Ukrainian, Russian and other regional archives. Documents over a thousand anti-Jewish riots and military actions across roughly five hundred locales between November 1918 and March 1921, and argues the violence, its perpetrators and its bystanders directly foreshadowed the mechanics of the Holocaust two decades later.
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Reliability TierA peer-reviewed history by the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, built from long-neglected archival testimony, trial records and official orders rather than from earlier secondary compilations alone. Citation
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