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pogrom
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pogrom an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe. The word comes (in the early 20th century) from Russian, meaning literally ‘devastation’.
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Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...byword for the 'pogrom'. A major strength...extent to which the pogroms were a consequence...Aronson show how the pogroms of 1881-4 and 1903...actors in the Odessan pogrom drama were subject...proportion of the 1905 pogrom mob was made up of...salience for the pogroms of the rapid ...
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Kielce's pogrom: The last blood libel in Poland
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/4/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...TODAY marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous pogrom in the Polish city of Kielce. The pogrom, in which thousands of ordinary people took...blood-libel accusation against the Jews. The pogrom's anniversary is by and large ignored in Poland...
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Olmert calls Hebron settler violence a 'pogrom'. Dichter slams PM, says word should be removed from lexicon
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...have to use the word pogrom to describe them, because pogroms describe events that...We can go back to the pogrom in Kishinev in 1903...not even a whiff of a pogrom," Ze'ev told the Post. "The pogroms against Jews in Europe...
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A REVIEW OF THE MECHANISM OF CATASTROPHE: THE TURKISH POGROM OF SEPTEMBER 6-7, 1955, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GREEK COMMUNITY OF ISTANBUL BY SPIROS VRYONIS (NEW YORK, GREEK WORKS COM, 2005)
Magazine article from: Journal of Political and Military Sociology; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...MECHANISM OF CATASTROPHE: THE TURKISH POGROM OF SEPTEMBER 6-7, 1955, AND THE DESTRUCTION...details the calculated state-sponsored pogrom and destruction of the thriving Greek...and scholarly work documents the Turkish pogrom and reveals the extent of obliteration...
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Constructions of the Kielce pogrom.
Magazine article from: Midstream; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...their deaths as the victims of the last pogrom in Europe. This startling massacre...all be involved. Within a week of the pogrom, in a parody of justice, twelve people...tried and nine executed. In Poland this pogrom, as well as other murders of Jews in...
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President speaks out for Jews in Moldova, known for deadly pogrom
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency; 4/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Kishinev to commemorate the pogrom's victims, many of whom...Yiddish and Hebrew. The 1903 pogrom wasn't the only tragedy local...last century. Another wave of pogroms in Kishinev and other towns...collaborators. But the 1903 pogrom still symbolizes Jewish suffering...
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April 1903: the Kishinev pogrom.
Magazine article from: Midstream; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...antisemite of the first rank. Pogroms had surged insidiously...continued after the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, replicated...Europe. These Russian pogroms carried out against Jewish...instigating almost 500 pogroms. Thousands upon thousands...forever. The Kishinev pogrom stood out in its time...
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Pogrom begins bloody century
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 6/20/2003; ; 664 words
; ...Leo Tolstoy, condemned the pogrom and expressed their sympathies...for a dead man). A second pogrom broke out in Kishinev on Aug...poems as a result of the 1903 pogrom, "Al haShechitah" ("On...cowardliness. The Kishinev pogroms are barely remembered by the...
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Poland Prepares to Mark Pogrom Anniversary
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...three months after the Kielce pogrom. "For Jews, Kielce showed...50th anniversary of the Kielce pogrom, but many Jewish groups and...feel it is unfair to equate pogroms such as Kielce as the moral...Schudrich said. "It was a postwar pogrom that was horrible and unacceptable...
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Media Watch: Fighting Words; From 'pogroms' to 'apartheid,' the language of the new intifada
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 3/2/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...assassination," is "pogrom." In 1991, most progressive...the Crown Heights riot a "pogrom," said to be a form of...Palestinian villages in quasi-pogrom fashion." All the references that we've seen to "pogroms" during the intifada describe...
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Pogroms
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
POGROMS Pogrom, a Russian word that...generally agree was a pogrom took place in Odessa in 1821, and pogroms against Armenians took...1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia. Pittsburgh...Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom. New York: New York...
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pogrom
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...without interfering. These pogroms encouraged the first emigration...After 1882 there were few pogroms until 1903, when there was an extremely violent three-day pogrom at Chisinau resulting in the...czarist government organized pogroms, the government's anti...
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Pogrom
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
POGROM An armed riot by one ethnic, tribal, or...destruction, rape, and murder. The term pogrom derives from the Russian pogromit (to destroy...Russia was the scene of the first modern pogroms, against its minority Jewish population...
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Hibbat Zion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...established in the aftermath of the Russian pogroms of 1881 and 1882. Hibbat Zion was formed...Dr. Pinsker had been appalled by the pogroms and realized that even assimilated Jews...diaspora; petah tikvah; pinsker, leo; pogrom. Bibliography Hertzberg, Arthur, ed...
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Black Hundred
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...merchants, and workers, who staged pogroms against Jews and attacked perceived revolutionaries...other monarchist organizations and smaller pogrom groupings and succeeded in uniting upper...forces that engaged in violent crimes like pogroms. In cities like Odessa, the state used...
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