Legacy of blood Jews, pogroms, and ritual murder in the lands of the Soviets Bemporad, Elissa creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History nyu 2019 2019 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) : illustrations Pogroms and blood libels constitute the two classical and most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism. They were often closely intertwined in history and memory, not least because the accusation of blood libel, the allegation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for ritual purposes, frequently triggered anti-Jewish violence. Such events were and are considered central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country on earth with large scale anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. Boasting its break from the tsarist period, the Soviet regime proudly claimed to have eradicated these forms of antisemitism. But, alas, life was much more complicated. The phenomenon and the memory of pogroms and blood libels in different areas of interwar Soviet Union-including Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia and Central Asia-as well as, after World War II, in the newly annexed territories of Lithuania, Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia are a reminder of continuities in the midst of revolutionary ruptures. The persistence, the permutation, and the responses to anti-Jewish violence and memories of violence suggest that Soviet Jews (and non-Jews alike) cohabited with a legacy of blood that did not vanish. This book traces the "afterlife" of these extreme manifestations of antisemitism in the USSR, and in doing so sheds light on the broader question of the changing position of Jews in Soviet society. One notable rupture in manifestations of antisemitism from tsarist to Soviet times included the virtual disappearance-at least during the interwar period-of the tight link between pogroms and blood allegations, indeed a common feature in the waves of anti-Jewish violence that erupted during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The pogroms of the civil war and the Soviet-Jewish alliance -- The afterlife of the Beilis Affair: the blood libel in the Soviet Union -- The pogroms as Soviet (Jewish) sites of memory -- How the ritual murder accusation persisted in the Soviet landscape -- Myth and reality: the "absence" of the pogrom in the lands of the Soviets -- From cannibalism to political murder: modern permutations of the blood libel. Elissa Bemporad. Includes bibliographical references and index. ee----- Jews Europe, Eastern History 20th century Pogroms Europe, Eastern History 20th century Blood accusation Europe, Eastern History 20th century Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations Juifs Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle Pogroms Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle Meurtre rituel Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle Europe de l'Est Relations interethniques Europe HISTORY Genocide & War Crimes POLITICAL SCIENCE Judaism RELIGION Blood accusation Ethnic relations Jews Pogroms Eastern Europe 1900-1999 fast DS135.E83 B45 2019eb 305.892/40470904 Legacy of blood Bemporad, Elissa. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] (DLC) 2019021019 (OCoLC)1100448121 9780190466480 0190466480 9780190466466 0190466464 9780190466473 0190466472 9780190466459 0190466456 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/35268 YDX 191126 20260319181529.2 in00005717903 eng