19th century
Peasant riots
Juin 1898·Galicie occidentale
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Jewish shops and houses looted in about thirty districts, state of siege proclaimed by Vienna
In June 1898, western Galicia, an Austrian province of the Carpathians, was swept by peasant riots affecting some thirty districts. Jewish shops, inns, and homes in towns and villages were looted and ransacked; families fled to the cities or barricaded themselves in, and a number of people lost their lives in the clashes.
The unrest arose from desperate rural poverty, which the propaganda of the peasant movement and part of the clergy turned against the Jews, held responsible for debt and the alcohol trade. Vienna declared a state of siege in the affected districts and had the rioters tried by military tribunals. The episode accelerated Galician emigration toward America and Vienne.
- Period :
- 19th century
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Rapports de la lieutenance de Galicie ; presse viennoise et polonaise contemporaine.