Pogrom: Kishinev & the Tilt of History

Tobias Lecture: by Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University  

Kishinev's pogrom of 1903 was the first event in Russian Jewish life to receive international attention. The riot that left 49 dead in an obscure border town dominated the headlines of the western press for weeks, intruded on Russian-Jewish relations, and left its impact on an astonishing array of institutions, including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine and the NAACP. It was even the likely inspiration for the first version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Why did this pogrom have this impact? How is it that this particular event so shaped history?

  This lecture is sponsored by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of History, and made possible through the generosity of Harry and Marjorie Tobias.

This event is free and open to the public.