The great war against Eastern European Jewry, 1914-1920

This volume focuses on the consequences that the First World War had on the Jews living in the notorious Pale of Settlement within the frontiers of the Tsarist Empire.

The research is entirely based on a solid documentary study, consisting of the documents of the Joint Distribution Committee and references to many historiographic works.

Rather than dealing with the military aspects of war, the book focuses on the political consequences, and in particular on the economic and social changes that the conflict generated.