Pogrom - Wikipedia
WEBA 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 Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement).
Pogrom | Meaning, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEBPogrom, (Russian: “devastation,” or “riot”), a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority. The term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in …
Pogroms | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBThe term “pogrom” historically refers to violent attacks on Jews by local non-Jewish populations. Learn about pogroms before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Pogroms - Meaning, Russia & Jewish | HISTORY
WEBJan 25, 2018 · Pogrom is a Russian word which, when directly translated, means “to wreak havoc.” Pogroms typically describe violence by Russian authorities against Jewish people, particularly...
20 years before the Holocaust, pogroms killed 100,000 Jews – …
WEBDec 21, 2021 · One was perhaps the largest single mass murder of Jews in modern history up to that point — the pogrom of Proskuriv on February 14, 1919, with 911 listed deaths, which Veidlinger estimates...
Pogrom Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
WEBThe meaning of POGROM is an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews.
Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass, Facts & Significance | HISTORY
WEBDec 16, 2009 · Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom (s), was a prolonged series of violent attacks on Jewish people, homes, businesses and synagogues in 1938 Germany.
What Were Pogroms? | My Jewish Learning
WEBA pogrom occurred in 1946 in Kielce, Poland, against Jewish Holocaust survivors who returned to the town, leaving 42 dead. These pogroms further motivated the already devastated Jewish population to seek refuge outside of Europe.
Kielce: The Post-Holocaust Pogrom That Poland Is Still Fighting Over
WEBJanuary 8, 2018. Women grieving over the coffins of those killed in the Kielce pogrom as they are transported to the burial site in the Jewish cemetery. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy...
The Pogroms of 1189 and 1190 - Historic UK
WEBFrom 1189 to 1190, the anti-Jewish pogroms in London, York, and numerous other cities and towns displayed cruelty and barbarity never before seen by English Jews. Indeed, these acts of violence distinguished themselves as some of the worst atrocities committed against European Jews in the Middle Ages.
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