Anti-Pogrom Loyalists, Modernisators or Defenders of the People? An Anonymous Letter  to the General-Governor of Vilna from 1903 Cover Image

Antypogromowi lojaliści, zwolennicy modernizacji czy obrońcy swojego ludu? Anonimowy list do generała-gubernatora wileńskiego z 1903 roku
Anti-Pogrom Loyalists, Modernisators or Defenders of the People? An Anonymous Letter to the General-Governor of Vilna from 1903

Author(s): Artur Markowski
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: pogroms; self-defense; Jewish politics; Russian Jewry;

Summary/Abstract: An anonymous letter to the general-governor of Vilna was sent in 1903. It concerns the permission to establish Jewish self-defense groups regardless of the political intentions of the Bund or Poale Zion. The author represents a loyalist attitude and shows ideological nuances within the Jewish community prior to 1905.

  • Issue Year: 20/2017
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 143-154
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish