Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands -- PART ONE: Imagining the Borderlands -- 1 The Traveler's View of Central Europe: Gradual Transitions and Degrees of Difference in European Borderlands -- 2 Megalomania and Angst: The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany's Eastern Borderlands -- 3 Between Empire and Nation State: Outline for a European Contemporary History of the Jews, 1750-1950 -- 4 Jews and Others in Vilna-Wilno-Vilnius: Invisible Neighbors, 1831-1948 -- PART TWO: Imperial Borderlands -- 5 Our Laws, Our Taxes, and Our Administration: Citizenship in Imperial Austria -- 6 Marking National Space on the Habsburg Austrian Borderlands, 1880-1918 -- 7 Travel, Railroads, and Identity Formation in the Russian Empire -- 8 Germany and the Ottoman Borderlands: The Entwining of Imperial Aspirations, Revolution, and Ethnic Violence -- 9 The Central State in the Borderlands: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century -- PART THREE: Nationalizing the Borderlands -- 10 Borderland Encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and Their Impact on Identity Formation -- 11 Mapping the Hungarian Borderlands -- 12 A Strange Case of Antisemitism: Ivan Franko and the Jewish Issue -- 13 Nation State, Ethnic Conflict, and Refugees in Lithuania, 1939-1940 -- 14 The Young Turks and the Plans for the Ethnic Homogenization of Anatolia -- PART FOUR: Violence on the Borderlands -- 15 Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and Their Aftermath -- 16 "Wiping out the Bulgar Race": Hatred, Duty, and National Self-Fashioning in the Second Balkan War -- 17 Failed Identity and the Assyrian Genocide.

18 Forms of Violence during the Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territory and in Northern Persia (Urmia and Astrabad), October 1914-December 1917 -- 19 A "Zone of Violence": The Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Galicia in 1914-1915 and 1941 -- 20 Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder: Krakivs'ki visti, the NKVD Murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia Exhumation -- 21 Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, 1941-1944 -- PART FIVE: Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity -- 22 Liquid Borderland, Inelastic Sea? Mapping the Eastern Adriatic -- 23 National Modernism in Post-Revolutionary Society: The Ukrainian Renaissance and Jewish Revival, 1917-1930 -- 24 Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence -- 25 Tremors in the Shatterzone of Empires: Eastern Galicia in Summer 1941 -- 26 Caught in Between: Border Regions in Modern Europe -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.