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Pogrom : Kishinev and the tilt of history / by Zipperstein, Steven J.,1950-author.(CARDINAL)746312;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-243) and index.Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history. So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself." In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed. Recounted in lurid detail by newspapers throughout the Western world, and covered sensationally by America's Hearst press, the pre-Easter attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype for what would become known as a 'pogrom,' and providing the impetus for efforts as varied as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the NAACP. Using new evidence culled from Russia, Israel, and Europe, distinguished historian Steven J. Zipperstein's wide-ranging book brings historical insight and clarity to a much-misunderstood event that would do so much to transform twentieth-century Jewish life and beyond.
Subjects: Kishinev Massacre, Chișinău, Moldova, 1903.; Pogroms; Jews; Jews; Massacres;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The phoenix of the West; a study in pogrom. / by Keenan, Alan,1920-;
Subjects: Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Before all the world / by Rothman-Zecher, Moriel,author.(CARDINAL)351760;
Meeting Charles at a former speakeasy in Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb is shocked to discover a Black man who is fluent in Yiddish and becomes encouraged at the prospect of a better life in America.A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that serves, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, its feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, a fellow traveler of Red Emma's, speaking Jewish to a young man he will come to call Lion. Lion is haunted by memories of life before, in Zatelsk, where everyone in his village, everyone except Gittl and the ten non-Jews and Leyb himself, was taken to the forest and killed. And then, miraculously, Gittl is in Philadelphia, too. And surrounding her are malokhim, the spirits of her siblings. Flowing and churning and seething with a glorious surge of language, carried along by questions of survival and hope and the possibility of a better world, Moriel Rothman-Zecher's Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Religious fiction.; Novels.; Jews; Immigrants; African Americans; Pogroms;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Regina of Warsaw : love, loss, and liberation / by Spieler, Geri,author.(CARDINAL)491904;
"Regina Anuszewicz looked forward to visiting her sister in Bialystok for a late afternoon stroll along the Bialy River. It was June 1906, and it should have been an exciting time to stay overnight in the women's boarding house. However, a violent pogrom blasted those plans as a rage of violence shook the town and Regina's hopes. Russian soldiers swarmed the streets and homes, stomping up to her sister's boarding house, forcing Regina to hide inside the wardrobe, barely able to breathe as she heard screams and people begging for their lives. The trauma of that day shaped Regina's life and every decision she made as she moved through the days and years, coloring her approach to every event that took her from Poland to the United States and the four children she sought to protect"--Description based on publisher data; resource not viewed.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Pogroms; Jews; Antisemitism; Life change events; Post-traumatic stress disorders; Pogroms;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the midst of civilized Europe : the pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust / by Veidlinger, Jeffrey,1971-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.War and revolution, March 1881--December 1918. The last years of the Russian empire ; The revolutions of 1917 ; The central rada of Ukraine ; From the Hetmanate to the directory -- The Ukrainian People's Republic, December 1918--March 1919. The Ovruch pogrom ; The Zhytomyr pogrom ; The Proskuriv pogrom ; The second Zhytomyr pogrom -- Power vacuum, March 1919--August 1919. The entente ; Warlords ; Months and days ; Poland and Ukraine on the world stage -- The Triumph of Bolshevism, August 1919--March 1921. The volunteer army ; The Tetiiv pogrom ; The Polish-Soviet war -- Aftermath, 1921--1941. Refugees ; The Schwarzbard trial ; The interwar in Ukraine ; The onset of the Holocaust."From an award-winning historian, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. Includes illustrations and maps"--
Subjects: Pogroms; Pogroms; Antisemitism; Antisemitism; Jews; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Tears over Russia : a search for family and the legacy of Ukraine's pogroms / by Brahin, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305).Preface: A granddaughter's memories -- Russian Jewish timeline: a brief chronology of historical events, 1881--1921 -- Prologue: Stavishche, June 15--16, 1919 -- Part I: Calm before the storm: 1876-1918 -- Family folklore -- A total eclipse -- A Passover tragedy -- Days of innocence -- Avrum Cutler's brief betrothals -- Count Wladyslaw Branicki and the noble family of Stavishche -- Part II: The pogroms: 1917-1920 -- Grigoriev's bandits -- From village to village -- Ataman Zeleny meets Rabbi Pitsie Avram -- The murder of Bessie Cutler's husband -- General Denikin's militia -- Refuge in Belaya Tserkov -- Part III: Exodus to the Goldene Medina, 1920-1925 -- There was a place nearby, where they made the little coffins -- The unlikely arrival of Barney Stumacher, an American hero -- The great escape: the wagon trains -- The perilous crossing of the Dniester River -- Adventures in Romania -- Life in Kishinev -- Journey on the SS Braga -- America: the first years -- Part IV: Rebecca and Isaac's children: select stories in Philadelphia, 1926-1931 -- Struggling in the golden land -- The story of Anne and Ben -- When Sunny met Harry -- Beryl -- Part V: Rabbis and reunions 1941-1950 rainbows 1925 and 2003 -- Rabbi Pitsie Avram in the Bronx -- The events that defined their lives in the New World -- Rainbows."Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa's stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village, killing Jewish residents. Channa described a perilous three-year journey through Russia and Romania, led at first by a gallant American who had snuck into Ukraine to save his immediate family and ended up leading an exodus of nearly eighty to safety. With almost no published sources to validate her grandmother's tales, Lisa embarked on her incredible journey to tell Channa's story, forging connections with archivists around the world to find elusive documents to fill in the gaps of what happened in Stavishche. She also tapped into connections closer to home, gathering testimonies from her grandmother's relatives, childhood friends and neighbors. The result is a moving historical family narrative that speaks to universal human themes--the resilience and hope of ordinary people surviving the ravages of history and human cruelty. With the growing passage of time, it is unlikely that we will see another family saga emerge so richly detailing this forgotten time period. Tears Over Russia eloquently proves that true life is sometimes more compelling than fiction." --
Subjects: Biographies.; Instructional and educational works.; Brahin, Lisa; Caprove, Anne, 1912-2003.; Jewish families; Jews; Pogroms;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The mechanism of catastrophe : the Turkish pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the destruction of the Greek community of Istanbul / by Vryonis, Speros,1928-2019.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: a personal chronicle -- Introduction: the Greeks of Istanbul on the eve of September 6,1955 -- Background and institutions of the pogrom -- The pogrom -- Moral and material damages, and the economics and politics of compensation -- From Papagos to Karamanles (the economics and politics of compensation continued) -- The attack on the Greek Orthodox Church -- Crime and punishment, and the trial of the Menderes government -- Conclusions --Appendixes.the Turkish pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the destruction of the Greek community of Istanbul
Subjects: Anti-Greek Riots, Istanbul, Turkey, 1955.; Greeks; Greeks; Pogroms;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Away [large print] by Bloom, Amy,1953-(CARDINAL)347335;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Jews; Missing children; Pogroms; Quests (Expeditions); Young women;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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City of slaughter : a novel / by Drew, Cynthia.(CARDINAL)398023;
Fourteen-year-old Carsie Akselrod and her younger sister, Lilia, flee the Pale of Settlement to live with Jewish relatives on New York's teeming, dangerous Lower East Side. Like many immigrant Americans in the early 1900s, the girls go to work in sweatshops, eventually taking jobs at the ill-fated Triangle Waist Company, scene of the infamous 1911 industrial fire that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers. Set against Tammany Hall politics and gangland crime, City of Slaughter is a tale of a woman torn by family, faith, and her drive to rise from poverty, succeed in business, and claim her place in New York's world of fashion and society. --
Subjects: Jewish fiction.; Fiction.; Pogroms; Jewish orphans; Immigrants; Jewish women; Self-realization in women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The third daughter : a novel / by Carner, Talia,author.(CARDINAL)486110;
Includes bibliographical references.The late 1800s find fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she's entered a waking nightmare. Her new "husband" does indeed bring her to America: Buenos Aires, a vibrant, growing city in which prostitution is not only legal but deeply embedded in the culture. And now Batya is one of thousands of women tricked and sold into the oldest profession in the world. As the years pass, Batya forms deep bonds with her "sisters" in the brothel as well as some men who are both kind and cruel. Through it all, she holds onto one dream: to bring her family to America, where they will be safe from the anti-Semitism that plagues Russia."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Jews; Pogroms; Prostitution; Jewish women; Human trafficking; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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