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"pogrom" Definitions
  1. the organized killing of large numbers of people, because of their race or religion (originally the killing of Jews in Russia)

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The Chechen government has repeatedly denied that the pogrom happened.
In Wales, there was even a pogrom against Jews in 260.
A vicious pogrom erupted, planned and encouraged by the Romanian government.
Agayants even established a stage-crafted pogrom to test his anthropological hypothesis.
POGROM Kishinev and the Tilt of History By Steven J. Zipperstein Illustrated.
At first glance, what happened that terrible day was yet another pogrom.
A pogrom in June 1941, the Farhud, killed nearly 200 Jews in Baghdad.
After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938, the family determined to leave the country.
American Jewry as any statistically noticeable part of the population, even if just 2 percent, dates back just over a hundred years, to the great waves that came in response to pogrom after pogrom in the 1890s and onward into the twentieth century.
For Jews, South Africa was liberation from pogrom, first, lifesaving distance from the Holocaust later.
The New Delhi riots were — as some of my colleagues have pointed out — a pogrom.
My own grandfather was killed in a pogrom in Vilnius, Lithuania when my father was two.
He is fearful, haunted by memories of a bloody pogrom back in his village in Ukraine.
Others went further, likening the Trump-Putin meeting to the Nazi pogrom of Jews on Kristallnacht.
" Referring to the July 4, 1946 pogrom in the town of Kielce — where a mob and secret security forces killed at least 40 Jews and two Poles who were defending them — Rosen said that Hlond "did not condemn the pogrom nor urge Poles to stop murdering Jews.
This new wave of anti-Semitism could, and in fact did, produce a kind of American pogrom.
This sparked intense feelings of resentment on the part of Kaunas residents, resulting in the vicious pogrom.
They were victims, in America, a country that has never seen even a hint of a pogrom.
On November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, an officially coordinated pogrom coupled with large-scale incarceration, shattered their lives.
Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld likened Trump's immigration policy to Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom against European Jewry.
Arrests, though, had tapered off after foreign governments and the United Nations raised concerns following the 2017 pogrom.
The riot that Beckmesser sets off at the end of the second act is here an eerie pogrom.
In 2016, the education minister from the Law and Justice Party told an interviewer the claim that Poles were involved in the pogrom was just "opinion," and she also would not say Poles were responsible for a 1946 pogrom that occurred in the town of Kielce after the war's end.
A close watch is being kept on the former Black Hundreds' agents and on the circulation of pogrom literature.
At its most extreme, the race feels like one between an uprising and a pogrom—social housing or barbarism.
The monument commemorated the victims of the Wąsosz pogrom, during which 250 Jews were brutally murdered on July 5, 1941.
Some historians dispute whether Poles or Germans actually carried out the pogrom, but the result was the same either way.
In the poor neighborhood of Moldavanka, men have names like Misha the Bullseye, Kolka the Pin, and Mendel the Pogrom.
The pogrom in Delhi follows in the wake of the discriminatory citizenship law that Mr. Modi's government passed in December.
Kamińska plays an elderly Jewish shopkeep who is completely oblivious to the Nazi pogrom taking place in her small town.
Chechnya, the turbulent Russian region led by the pro-Kremlin strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is carrying out an anti-gay pogrom.
My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States.
The Burmese army helped lead a pogrom that sent 700,000 members of the Rohingya minority fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh in 2017.
They are traditionally cleaned on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom that was carried out against Jews across Germany on Nov.
Ben Hur's father and young brother were among 180 Baghdad Jews killed in 1941, in a pogrom known as the Farhud.
One collector told Ms. Rynecki that his scene of a Cossack pogrom by Mr. Rynecki had to be laboriously smoothed out.
But it came to an abrupt end when I became a victim of the infamous Kielce Pogrom, on July 4, 1946.
This is hardly the first production to portray the Act II riot as a pogrom, but Kosky's imagery has jarring power.
It is commonly referred to today as a massacre—or even, borrowing a better-fitting word from another context, a pogrom.
Rather, he pointed out that the Jews were all communists or supporters of communism and that the pogrom was their own fault.
Soon there is a core group determined to stop the deportation and pogrom that could become Stalin's last gift to Russian Jews.
Here in America, we have a Felshtin Society, which consists primarily of descendants of pogrom survivors determined to keep their memories alive.
He has recently read parts of the memoirs of those who fled the pogrom, including one my grandfather wrote about my mother.
"We view the unwarranted killings by the police as a continuation of the army pogrom started in Zaria last year," he said.
The UN said the move would further isolate the 750,000 Rohingyas, who fled a pogrom backed by the Burmese army in 2017.
The word "pogrom," which Kishinev concretized, "was believed to capture accurately centuries of Jewish vulnerability, the deep well of Jewish misery," Zipperstein writes.
Caught in a power struggle with the government, the group organized a militarized uprising in an effort to reclaim control, including a pogrom.
The Russians had staged a pogrom against the Jewish residents of a village — an organized act of ethnic persecution — storming a wedding celebration.
In 2009, those tensions exploded in a vicious pogrom by young Uighur men against Han, in which at least 197 people were killed.
It also is undeniable that many Eastern Europeans — individuals, pogrom mobs, nationalist armed groups and collaborationist governments — actively participated in the murder of Jews.
In response, the Burmese army led a pogrom against the Rohingyas, a downtrodden Muslim minority in whose name the insurgents had launched the attacks.
Relations collapsed three years later when a deadly pogrom took aim at Greek businesses and homes across Istanbul, accelerating the Greek exodus from Turkey.
Sectarian clashes descended into a pogrom against Rohingyas in Rakhine state in 2012 that claimed some 200 lives, the vast majority of them Muslims.
After a pogrom in 1929 that saw the slaughter of 67 Jews in Hebron, the Jews would leave the city fearing for their lives.
In Philip Roth's novel " The Plot Against America ," it is 1940; the famed pilot Charles Lindbergh becomes President and secretly launches a pogrom against Jews.
But the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom was committed by Poles, not the SS. A frank discussion of episodes like these now seems more difficult than ever.
I do not know why I had to witness scenes of a pogrom in San Diego County like the ones my grandparents experienced in Poland.
This year, it emerged that gay men had been detained and tortured in the Chechnya region of Russia, in what observers likened to a pogrom.
Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper, first reported the pogrom, saying that at least 100 gay men had been arrested and three killed in the roundup.
The murders were used as a pretext for an anti-communist pogrom by Indonesia's military and Islamic groups that led to at least 500,19673 deaths.
Then, stand upon a tower and watch the start of lynching, the pogrom, the biggest of all time, a Kristallnacht times 10, or times a hundred!
Sadly, after Mr Wade's book was written, just such a pogrom came: Buthidaung, like much of the surrounding area, is now all but empty of Muslims.
Mr Sik's opening statement at the Cumhuriyet trial was a blistering counter-indictment of Mr Erdogan, whom he accused of a "pogrom" against freedom of thought.
And the camps housing more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled an army-led pogrom in Myanmar may become a fruitful recruiting ground for extremists.
Over the past five months some 680,000 of them have fled to Bangladesh to escape a pogrom conducted by the Burmese army and their Buddhist neighbours.
In reality, though, the Kristallnacht riots had been suggested by German government officials, with propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels at the forefront, as an anti-Semitic pogrom.
In 1938, when he was 17, Walter fled just a few days before Kristallnacht, the November pogrom against Jews by uniformed Nazis and their civilian sympathizers.
It's an almost incalculable insult for Trump and his enablers to act as if he's helping the Jews when he adopts the language of the pogrom.
A report by the UN Human Rights Council concluded that six senior generals in Myanmar should be prosecuted for genocide for leading a pogrom against Rohingya Muslims.
"When a Polish minister questions Polish participation in the murder of hundreds of their Jewish neighbors during a Holocaust-era pogrom, he is wrong," the authors wrote.
He attends a pick-up bootcamp in Miami, at which he is dispatched to chat up a Russian woman ("I deploy my full repertoire—glasnost, perestroika, pogrom").
"I do not know why I had to witness scenes of a pogrom in San Diego County like the ones my grandparents experienced in Poland," he continued.
In the 1930s it was mainly political rhetoric; then in June 1941 it was the "Farhud," a pogrom that killed nearly 200 Jews and injured hundreds more.
In 2002, when Modi was chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, a pogrom against Muslims left nearly a thousand dead and turned many more into refugees.
The Polish Pogrom I read Elisabeth Zerofsky's article about the Polish government's efforts to reframe its involvement in the Holocaust with great personal interest ("Memory Politics," July 30th).
"If we were to stand and scream all our days and our nights, it would not suffice," the Russian Jewish author Joseph Hayim Brenner wrote of the pogrom.
They demanded that he diminish the Jewishness of the story and eliminate scenes, like the death camp march and one in which the tinsmith's children enact a pogrom.
Shortly after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, in which the Nazis murdered Jews and burned their synagogues and businesses, the Sterns had a chance to escape. Mrs.
Christians make up just 10 percent of Egypt's people, who are mostly Sunni Muslims, and despite deep-rooted prejudices, there is no popular support for a bloody pogrom.
Yet a UN report last month said that its army had slaughtered more than 10,000 members of a Muslim minority, the Rohingyas, in a pogrom which began last year.
Between the city's boosterish idea of itself as "too busy to hate", and a reality that includes the horrific racial pogrom of 1906, there is a savagely ironic gap.
"The savagery of pogrom implies the essence of 'anti-Maidan': the social darkness that cannot be allowed to occupy the Ukrainian public space," the center wrote in its announcement.
Amid accusations of an anti-gay pogrom in 2017, he said it would be impossible for the police to persecute gay people because there were none in his region.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Kadyrov's spokesman, Alvi Karimov, said the reports of an anti-gay pogrom had to be false because such men did not exist in Chechnya.
Shortly after his announcement that he was joining up with Johnson, meanwhile, Weld compared Trump's immigration policy to Kristallnacht, literally the "Night of Broken Glass," a pogrom within Nazi Germany.
Now 84 and the owner of two falafel restaurants in Tel Aviv, he recalled the 1941 Farhud pogrom that killed more than 180 Jews during the Jewish festival of Shavuot.
City Without Drugs founder, Yevgeny Roizman, was condemned by SOVA not only for inhumane treatment of his "patients," but for his racist and xenophobic statements, nearly inciting "pogrom-like" violence.
At a recent reunion to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the pogrom, we mentioned our own good fortune to be there -- and discussed the plight of today's migrants and immigrants.
It is not clear how many of the 650,000 Rohingyas who fled an army-backed pogrom want to go home, or whether they would be safe if they did so.
BOOK REVIEW A review last Sunday about "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History," by Steven J. Zipperstein, misstated the name of the country where Chisinau (formerly Kishinev) is located.
After a year's research, including 875 individual interviews, it published a report which affirms that the army led a pogrom that claimed the lives of more than 10,000 Rohingyas (see article).
TO UNDERSTAND how grim things are for Myanmar's Rohingyas, consider what passes for good news amid the Burmese army's two-month pogrom in northern Rakhine state, where most of them live.
The authors find that a fall in average temperatures of only a third of a degree increased the probability of a pogrom or expulsion by 50% over the next five years.
The troubles in Rakhine state, where an army-backed pogrom has prompted more than 600,000 members of the Rohingya minority to flee to Bangladesh, have also spawned a proliferation of committees.
And in the more distant past, there were outbursts that were deadlier than the Orlando shooting, whether in the category of terrorism, race riot, pogrom, ethnic cleansing, genocide or military action.
For this reviewer, it was the chapter on the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik, who wrote a celebrated poem about the pogrom, following a five-week evidence-gathering mission to the city.
"The forlorn, traumatized towns, mountains, plains and valleys of Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir reverberate today, with the grim reminders of Rwanda, Srebrenica, the Rohingya, and the pogrom of Gujarat," he said.
JACOB'S LADDER By Ludmila UlitskayaTranslated by Polly Gannon In 1905, the Kiev pogrom set off a wave of anti-Semitic violence that killed more than 2,000 Jews across the Russian empire.
JACOB'S LADDER By Ludmila UlitskayaTranslated by Polly Gannon In 1905, the Kiev pogrom set off a wave of anti-Semitic violence that killed more than 2,000 Jews across the Russian empire.
But that vision is difficult to square with what we in the US and Europe know of colonial oppression, its mechanisms, and of the far-reaching legacy of the pogrom it initiated.
Anti-immigrant violence is growing in countries that have shouldered the largest burden: this week a German police chief spoke of a "pogrom atmosphere" after a spate of attacks on asylum centres.
After the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews, a poll found that 94 percent of Americans disapproved of Nazi treatment of Jews, but 72 percent still objected to admitting large numbers of Jews.
"The Yid" is a personal passion project with origins in fact: In March 1953, Joseph Stalin died just before he could carry out a huge pogrom to exterminate all of his country's Jews.
The author's connection with Rwanda dates back to his mother, who was born there in 1959 but fled to Burundi with her family four years later after an anti-Tutsi pogrom broke out.
By the same token, it did not build the temple at Ayodhya or preside over the sort of anti-Muslim pogrom that stained Mr Modi's tenure as chief minister of the state of Gujarat.
Liveright; 288 pages; $27.95 and £20 The pogrom in Kishinev in 1903 became a byword for anti-Semitic violence for Jews everywhere, its victims blamed variously for their passivity and for having resisted their attackers.
Some pin all the blame for events on a nasty group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, whose attack on police posts in late August was the pretext for this latest and biggest anti-Rohingya pogrom.
Many more people died in the Congress-led anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 than in the 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujarat that Modi is accused of supervising while he was the state's chief minister.
Trump can call for a police state pogrom against 11 million people and be rewarded, because a majority of Republican caucusgoers are white, native-born and believe that electing a demagogue will make American white again.
" Even after the war, the Polish people persecuted Jews, most horrifically in the Kielce Pogrom of 1946, when "a mob of Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians murdered at least 42 Jews and injured over 40.
The following year, Mr. Modi set a new benchmark for the killer instinct by presiding over, as chief minister of the state of Gujarat, a pogrom that killed hundreds of Muslims and rendered homeless countless more.
But for the young man who calls himself Maksim, as for scores of other gay men arrested in a pogrom this month in Russia's Chechnya region, it pivoted into nearly two weeks of beatings and torture.
Since August 19913th, when attacks on police and army posts by Rohingya insurgents in Myanmar's northern Rakhine triggered an army-led pogrom, nearly 600,000 Muslim Rohingyas have fled the Buddhist-majority state, which is also Myanmar's poorest.
The violence against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 — what many call a pogrom orchestrated by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi — is a motivating force in the novel for several Muslims seeking justice, or even just peaceful coexistence.
The "use-by" date of the entire batch of 2,000 bottles was November 9, the same date upon which Kristallnacht (known in English as the "Night of Broken Glass"), the anti-Jewish pogrom, took place in 1938.
But if Poles were victims, they were also at times accomplices and perpetrators in the slaughter of Polish Jews, as has been well documented in Jan Gross's study of the Jedwabne pogrom of 1941, among other works.
Nkomo was purged from the cabinet and Mugabe unleashed his forces in a pogrom that effectively wiped out Nkomo's armed followers, left as many as 20,000 of Nkomo's fellow tribesmen dead, and consolidated Mugabe's grip on power.
Sammy Smooha, 74, a sociology professor at Haifa University, said his father was stabbed repeatedly during the pogrom but survived by pretending to be dead, stirring only after he had been loaded onto a truck with other bodies.
The powers of the west have embraced Modi too, despite his record, when chief minister of Gujarat, of unleashing a pogrom against Muslims in 2002, violence so egregious that the Bush administration felt compelled to cancel his visa.
These policies -- that led to at least one murder of an activist were broadly denounced by the international community as having nothing to do with health but rather seen as an anti-gay pogrom in the socially conservative region.
Romania's involvement in the Holocaust extends far beyond this episode (the Iasi pogrom of 1941 claimed at least 13,000 lives, and under Marshal Ion Antonescu's watch countless Jewish families were sent to die in the labor camps of Transnistria).
"The exhibition space, preserved as it is after the pogrom, will serve as a ground for reflection on the situation, in which current artistic expression is now, as well as of our society in general," the VCRC website says.
And, finally, there is historical time, the rise and fall of empires as Palestine, "diseased with desire for a nation," changes hands from the Ottoman Turks to the paternalistic British amid steadily mounting Jewish immigration from pogrom-ridden Europe.
"On the whole, the Delhi riots of this week are now beginning to look like a pogrom, à la Gujarat 2002 and Delhi 1984," said Ashutosh Varshney, the director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University.
Alan H. Siegel New York To the Editor: The concluding sentence of Anthony Julius's review of Steven J. Zipperstein's "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" (July 29) lacks the historical specificity the Jewish victims he refers to deserve.
Valley blames all of them for the rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. "Trump [is] increasingly saying that the Democrats are anti-Semites — when in fact Trump incited the most horrific pogrom in our history," Valley said.
Following the Nazis' anti-Jewish pogrom in November 2550 known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, the British government agreed to allow an unspecified number of Jewish children as refugees from Nazi Germany or territories it had annexed.
Addressing concerns raised by his failure as chief minister of Gujarat to prevent a pogrom in 2002 that left some 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, dead, Mr Modi declared that sabka saath—all together—would mean sabka vikas—development for all.
To pre-empt this forthcoming pogrom, the international community led by the African Union should as a matter of urgency take charge and seek support from the United Nations to establish a transitional authority to run the government of South Sudan.
It will be joined by a painting by Abraham A. Manievich of a pogrom, and a reproduction of a painting by Thomas Hart Benton that the artist made after Pearl Harbor for propaganda purposes; it contains racist imagery of Japanese attackers.
Three days of mayhem followed, with bands of black residents taking over the streets, some chanting "Heil Hitler" or "Kill the Jews," and Jewish residents accusing the black mayor of permitting a "pogrom," or organized massacre of an ethnic group.
While most Polish Jews were killed by the Nazis, historians say that Poles were also complicit in many Jewish deaths — whether indirectly, by informing on them, or actively killing them in events such as the pogrom in Jedwabne in 1941.
VATICAN CITY – A leading Jewish organization has criticized the Vatican&aposs decision to move World War II-era Cardinal August Hlond along the path to possible sainthood, saying he was "extremely" hostile to Poland&aposs Jews and failed to condemn a 1946 pogrom.
" In "The History of White People," Nell Irvin Painter notes that "in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921 police and sheriff's deputies joined Klansmen in a pogrom against African-Americans, destroying homes, businesses and lives in an attack hardly mourned as an assault on Americans.
So, yes, I am usually a puddle well before the wrenching finale, in which Anatevke's Jews, having suffered age-old poverty and a recent pogrom, are forced by a 1905 edict of Czar Nicholas II to leave Russia on three days' notice.
At the center of "The Plot Against America," a book that invents an America where Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election and initiates a secret pogrom against Jews, is a New Jersey family named Roth that resembles the author's in every particular.
A year after the massive pogrom of Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine State, which expelled 800,85033 innocent people — including tens of thousands of children — through terroristic tactics of rape, pillage and murder, no real measure to stop this genocide and punish those responsible has occurred.
In November 1938 came the terror of Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"), when Nazi paramilitary groups and other civilians conducted a nationwide pogrom, attacking synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and properties, and ransacking the homes of Jewish families, often injuring or even killing their occupants.
Many of the police personnel and officers who were attacking protesters last week in Delhi along with the Hindu mobs would have either served under or been trained under the very same officers who escaped any punishment for their role in the 1984 pogrom.
Shown photos of himself in the uniform of a wartime Romanian Iron Guard student leader and anti-Semitic speeches with his name, he contradicted his statements to immigration authorities and implicated himself in a 1941 Bucharest pogrom that murdered 300 Jews in a kosher slaughterhouse.
The United States, where Mr. Modi received the Gates award, refused him a visa in 2005 for "severe violations of religious freedom," after a brutal pogrom against Muslims in the state of Gujarat — where Mr. Modi was chief minister — left over a thousand dead.
This belief has been reinforced by what has transpired in earlier bouts of large-scale religious violence in India, in particular in the western state of Gujarat in 2002 and in the pogrom in Delhi in 1984 when more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed by Hindu mobs.
It was the 78th anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews, and the Berlin restaurant owned by Mr. Feinberg, a 35-year-old Israeli, had been included without his knowledge on a map of the city that a far-right group had published on Facebook.
"We live at a time when, both in national politics and globally, religion is again being used as a vehicle for personal interests," he said, citing as examples "a pogrom-like mood" against foreigners in Germany and people in the United States who express "serious doubt" about Darwin's theory of evolution.
Tobin told an FBI agent in October that he directed members of Group 1 to vandalize properties throughout the country, launching "Operation Kristallnacht" (in reference to the 1938 pogrom in Nazi Germany, in which Nazis torched synagogues, vandalized properties, and killed around 100 Jews) with other members to "tag the sh-t" out of synagogues.
Those refugee kids were Jewish children, and, it should be noted, the speech came just six months after Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass," a two-day pogrom that inflamed Germany, Austria, and German-occupied Czech Sudetenland, during which some 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps and 19633 synagogues burned to the ground across the Reich.
The League, a non-governmental group that campaigns to protect Poland's historical reputation abroad, said that in December 2017 Pagina 12 used a photograph of Polish so-called 'doomed soldiers' who fought against communists after the war to illustrate an article on the Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 in which Nazi occupiers and local inhabitants colluded in the massacre of at least 340 Jews.

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