THE IMAGES OF THE JEWISH POPULATION IN THE
PUBLICATIONS OF REGIONAL PRESS AND SOCIAL
RELATIONS IN MODERN UKRAINE: POSING THE
PROBLEM Cover Image

ОБРАЗИ ЄВРЕЙСЬКОГО НАСЕЛЕННЯ В ПУБЛІКАЦІЯХ У РЕГІОНАЛЬНІЙ ПРЕСІ ТА СУСПІЛЬНІ ВІДНОСИНИ У МОДЕРНІЙ УКРАЇНІ: ДО ПОСТАНОВКИ ПРОБЛЕМИ
THE IMAGES OF THE JEWISH POPULATION IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF REGIONAL PRESS AND SOCIAL RELATIONS IN MODERN UKRAINE: POSING THE PROBLEM

Author(s): Liudmyla Novikova
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Ethnohistory, 19th Century, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Видавництво «Одеський національний університет І. І. Мечникова»
Keywords: «Novorossijskij Telegraph»; national images and stereotypes; Jewish pogroms in Odesa; regional history of Ukraine; antisemitism in the second half of XIX c;

Summary/Abstract: At the time of the social modernization in the second half of thenineteenth century in the Russian Empire the conditions have formed,with the events of Jewish pogroms, the ground for attention to the socalled“Jewish question”. Understanding this term despite its certainstability was different, including the relationship between Jews andnon-Jews and the content of the term «Jew». At that time the newspapersof different ideological directions have taken the participationin the discussion on the question, offering contradictory images ofthe Jewish population. A study of the features of complex images ofradical character, that influenced the formation of the value basis forindividual and social behavior is important as analysis of the historicalexperience of interethnic relations in Ukraine under circumstancies ofthe developing modern European Ukraine and existing the need toprevent the manifestations of social conflict. On the other hand, theexisting historiography, which covers certain aspects of the problem,does not highlights its regional aspect, and also has elective character.For example, the mutual perception and understanding of theUkrainians and the Jews is studied, but the perception of the Jewishcommunity in the mass mind of a particular region is not studied, thatis the territorial approach, which allows more comprehensive reviewof the issue is not used much. Therefore, the chosen problem has thepublic and scientific relevance.The subject of this research is the peculiarities of images of theJewish population that formed on the pages of the Odessa newspaper«Novorossijskij Telegraph») in the first half of the 1880’s, from masspogrom in 1881 till the pogrom in the summer of 1886.The analysis of the content of the publications of «NovorossijskijTelegraph», which presented radical anti-Semitic streams, in the firsthalf of the 1880’s. discovered features of so called by us «externalnational identity» or images of the Jewish population, disseminatedthrough newspaper’s publications in Odessa and among the consumers 84of the Odessa press in general. «Novorossijskij Telegraph» presentedthe Jews as the religious and national community, with the selfish interestsopposite to interests of the rest of the population, which mustbe the object of struggle because it was presented as the «source ofeconomic exploitation for the Christians». The image of the Jewishpopulation in the «Novorossijskij Telegraph»was an example of radicalpropaganda, that formed the basis for the further development of theconflict on the base of opposition of Jews and non-Jews in Odessa. Ithas revealed, in particular, in the exacerbation of social relations inOdessa and in the so-called «disorders» in 1886.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 82-92
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Ukrainian