Prelude to the Holocaust?

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This symposium convened leading scholars in the histories of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Jewish communities of those lands in order to share knowledge on the complex subject of anti-Jewish violence in the half-century prior to the Holocaust. The programme focused specifically on the question of ‘preludes’ to the Holocaust: did large-scale attacks on Jews in Eastern Europe somehow lay the foundations for the genocide, planned by the Nazis but in many cases executed with help or at least without opposition from local East European peoples? The symposium enabled participants to present the results of a decade and a half of research in the newly-opened archives of the former Eastern bloc countries. Papers focusing on specific examples of anti-Jewish violence were woven into comparative and interdisciplinary panels and discussion sessions, providing an invaluable breadth of perspective onto the topic.

Participants:-
Dr Alina Cala, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Dr Jolanta Zyndul, Warsaw University
Dr Liekis Sarunas, Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Professor Lidia Miliukova, Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Dr Evgenii Rozenblat, Belarus State University, Minsk
Dr Vladislav Grinevich, University of Kyiv
Professor John Klier, University College London
Dr Michal Frankl, Institut Terezinske iniciativy, Prague
Professor Victor Karády, Central European University, Budapest
Dr Attila Pok, Institute of History, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dr Werner Bergmann, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Frankfurt
Dr Mark Levene, University of Southampton
Dr Natan Meir, University of Southampton

This symposium was made possible in part by the British Academy and the Rothschild Foundation Europe.