Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Judaic Texts and Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2003) 43-54
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
World War I and the upsurge of patriotism that ensued stifled antisemitism in Russia, but only for a short time. With the first setbacks of the Russian Army, accusations that Jews were spying for the Germans spread in the Russian rear. At the height of the Russian retreat from Lithuania and Latvia in the spring of 1915, the army began to expel Jews from some vicinities adjacent to the front line. Describes the expulsion from the townlet Žeimelis (in northern Lithuania) in May 1915, based partly on accounts by eyewitnesses interviewed by Khayesh in the 1980s. Describes, also, the incident in nearby Kužiai, where the Russians accused the Jews of helping the Germans to take over the town in April 1915.
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