The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.

Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish–Soviet War. William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' firs

Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.

Anti-Semitism, as it has existed historically in Europe, is generally thought of as having been a phenomenon of the political right. To the extent that nineteen

"This book employs archival research and statistical analysis on an original dataset of a summer 1941 wave of anti-Jewish pogroms to show that pogroms occurred