"Buchen's sophisticated and highly original study is an important reminder of the intractability of this modern sociopolitical reality." * Austrian History Yearbook "This is probably the most persuasive historical study of anti-Jewish violence to be published in recent years . Buchen never loses sight of his real human protagonists and is able to convincingly describe their motives." * H-Soz-u-Kult "Tim Buchen's prize-winning work casts a bright light on the massive wave of antisemitic violence inflicted on West Galician rural and shtetl Jewry by Polish villagers . This book is a watershed in connecting Christian-Jewish relations to the emergence of modern mass politics in the Polish lands." * Pol-Int.