Gendered Violence

<div>This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic. Between 1917 and 1921 rape was used as a strategic weapon in the genocidal anti-Jewish violence-the pogroms-that erupted in Ukraine. During this period at least 100000 Jews died and unknown numbers of Jewish women were raped. The book is based on the in-depth study of the scores of survivor narratives that have been all but forgotten for almost a century. It analyzes how the victimized Jewish communities experienced trauma how they expressed it the motives of the perpetrators and the part played by rape in furthering the pogroms' objectives.<br></div>