Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His books include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity.

Eric D. Weitz is Dean of Humanities and the Arts and Professor of History at City College, City University of New York. His books include A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation and Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands \ Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz

Part 1. Imagining the Borderlands

1. The Traveler's View of Central Europe: Gradual Transitions and Degrees of Difference in European Borderlands \ Larry Wolff

2. Megalomania and Angst: The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany's Eastern Borderlands \ Gregor Thum

3. Between Empire and Nation State: An Outline for a European Contemporary History of the Jews, 1750-1950 \ Dan Diner

4. Jews and Others in Vilna-Wino-Vilnius: Invisible Neighbors, 1831-1948 \ Theodore R. Weeks

Part 2. Imperial Borderlands

5. Our Laws, Our Taxes, and Our Administration: Citizenship in Imperial Austria \ Gary B. Cohen

6. Marking National Space on the Habsburg Austrian Borderlands, 1880-1918 \ Pieter M. Judson

7. Travel, Railroads, and Identity Formation in the Russian Empire \ Frithjof Benjamin Schenk

8. Germany and the Ottoman Borderlands: The Entwining of Imperial Aspirations, Revolution, and Ethnic Violence \ Eric D. Weitz

9. The Central State in the Borderlands: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century \ Elke Hartmann

Part 3. Nationalizing the Borderlands

10. Borderland Encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and Their Impact on Identity Formation \ Patrice M. Dabrowski

11. Mapping the Hungarian Borderlands \ Robert Nemes

12. A Strange Case of Antisemitism: Ivan Franko and the Jewish Issue \ Yaroslav Hrytsak

13. Nation State, Ethnic Conflict, and Refugees in Lithuania, 1939-1940 \ Tomas Balkelis

14. The Young Turks and the Plans for the Ethnic Homogenization of Anatolia \ Taner Akçam

Part 4. Violence on the Borderlands

15. Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and Their Aftermath \ Eyal Ginio

16. "Wiping out the Bulgar Race": Hatred, Duty, and National Self-Fashioning in the Second Balkan War \ Keith Brown

17. Failed Identity and the Assyrian Genocide \ David Gaunt

18. Forms of Violence during the Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territory and in Northern Persia (Urmia and Astrabad), October 1914-December 1917 \ Peter Holquist

19. A "Zone of Violence": The Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Galicia in 1914-1915 and 1941 \ Alexander V. Prusin

20. Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder: Krakivs'ki visti, the NKVD Murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia Exhumation \ John-Paul Himka

21. Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, 1941-1944 \ Omer Bartov

Part 5. Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity

22. Liquid Borderland, Inelastic Sea? Mapping the Eastern Adriatic \ Pamela Ballinger

23. National Modernism in Post-Revolutionary Society: The Ukrainian Renaissance and Jewish Revival, 1917-1930 \ Myroslav Shkandrij

24. Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence \ Paul Robert Magocsi

25. Tremors in the Shatterzone of Empires: Eastern Galicia in Summer 1941 \ Kai Struve

26. Caught in Between: Border Regions in Modern Europe \ Philipp Ther

List of Contributors

Index