Chronicle of an Announced Death: Affiliation, Violence, and the Appropriation of Urban Space in Provincial Germany, 1934

Historian Ulrike Jureit delivers a GHIL Joint Lecture reconstructing the 1934 pogrom in Gunzenhausen and the violent spatial appropriation of urban space in provincial Germany.

This GHIL Joint Lecture, given in co-operation with the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, examines the pogrom of 25 March 1934 in the small Franconian town of Gunzenhausen, in which two Jewish residents lost their lives. Ulrike Jureit reconstructs the spatial appropriation of the town's urban space and analyses the interdependence of space, violence and collective belonging. She argues the pogrom was a revolutionary moment of commitment to a racial concept of social order that still had to settle on binding forms of social exclusion and racial community-building. Ulrike Jureit is a Research Fellow at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, associated with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.