War, Revolution and Displacement: European Jews and World War I

March 18, 12:00-1:30, ODU library

This event is open to public. Free parking will be available in the parking garage behind the library.

War, Revolution, and Displacement: European Jews and the First World War

The First World War was a decisive event in European Jewish history:

Jews fought Jews on all fronts; Russian Jews were liberated from the

Czarist yoke but became subject of Bolshevik oppression; German Jews

hoped to finally integrate through the common army experience but were

disillusioned by new anti-Semitic measures were implemented; as a result

of the war, anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe reached unprecedented

dimensions; and as a result of the demise of the Habsburg and Ottoman

Empires in the new postwar order most Jews were no longer subjects of

multinational empires but of nations states. 

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Posted By: Farideh Goldin
Date: Mon Mar 14 08:38:53 EDT 2016