The 1898 Anti-Jewish Violence in Habsburg Galicia
Abstract
In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, now divided between Poland and Ukraine. Jewish-owned homes and businesses were ransacked and looted, and Jews were assaulted, threatened, and humiliated, though not killed. Emperor Franz Joseph signed off on a state of emergency in thirty-three counties and declared martial law in two. Over five thousand individuals peasants, day laborers, city council members, teachers, shopkeepers were charged with myriad offenses. Through its analysis of the riots as a form of exclusionary violence, this chapter offers new insights into the upsurge of the antisemitism that accompanied the emergence of mass politics in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century.
Publication Title
Pogroms: A Documentary History
Recommended Citation
Unowsky, D. (2022). The 1898 Anti-Jewish Violence in Habsburg Galicia. Pogroms: A Documentary History, 46-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060084.003.0003
