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Learn to pronounce po·grom

/pōˈɡrəm,ˈpōɡrəm/
noun
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
"the pogroms of the 1880s drove many westwards to the USA"
synonyms: massacre, slaughter, wholesale slaughter, mass slaughter, mass killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass execution, night of the long knives, annihilation, extermination, decimation, carnage, bloodbath, bloodletting, butchery, genocide, holocaust, Shoah, ethnic cleansing, megadeath, persecution, witch-hunt, destruction, victimization

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A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian... Wikipedia
May 30, 2024 · The meaning of POGROM is an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews.
Pogroms Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish ...
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5 days ago · POGROM meaning: 1. an act of organized cruel behaviour or killing that is done to a large group of people because…. Learn more.
We have, in a short period of time, experienced periodic pogroms and other political forms of death. From Vox. We don't like use a word pogrom unless we can use ...
2011, Wiley-Blackwell · Pogroms... were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire. ... The term pogrom has been applied ...
Pogroms continued to occur in the early 20th century. Particularly violent were the pogroms from 1903 to 1906. The horrific 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, in what is ...
The word comes to English via the similar Yiddish and Russian words; pogrom literally means "devastation." In many Russian pogroms in the late 1800s and early ...
A pogrom erupted in Warsaw on Christmas Day, 1881. Pogroms returned to Ukraine in the spring of 1882, the most serious of which was in Balta, Podolia province, ...