- Summary
- This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic--the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period between 1917 and 1921, and in which at least 100,000 Jews died and undocumented numbers of Jewish women were raped. The book is based on the in-depth study of the scores of narratives of Jewish men and women who survived the pogrom violence, but were then all but forgotten for almost a century. This book deconstructs the motives of perpetrators, the experience and expression of trauma by the victimized community, and how the genocidal objectives of the pogrom perpetrators were achieved and maximized through the macabre carnival of violence.
- Series
- Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Astashkevich, Irina, author.
- Published
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018
- Locale
- Ukraine
Osteuropa
Sowjetunion
- Contents
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Introduction
Chaos in Ukraine: defining the context of anti-Jewish violence
Carnival of violence: development of the pogrom script
The perfect weapon: mass rape as public spectacle
Inventing vengeance: who and why punished the Jews
Describing the indescribable: narratives of gendered violence
"Wretched victims of another kind": making sense of rape trauma.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Chaos in Ukraine: defining the context of anti-Jewish violence -- Carnival of violence: development of the pogrom script -- The perfect weapon: mass rape as public spectacle -- Inventing vengeance: who and why punished the Jews -- Describing the indescribable: narratives of gendered violence -- "Wretched victims of another kind": making sense of rape trauma.
