Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. A contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Jewish Review of Books and coeditor of the 'Jewish Lives' series for Yale University Press, he lives in Berkeley, California.
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So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was 'nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself.' In three days of violence, 49 Jews were kil... SEE MORE