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Article: April 1903: the Kishinev pogrom.
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- Midstream
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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One hundred years ago in the month of April, during the Passover/Easter season, men and women of good will the world over were shocked by news of a devastating three-day murderous attack against the civilian Jewish population of the Romanian town of Kishinev, territory that had been under the control of Czarist Russia since 1812. Such mass assaults upon a Russian Jewish community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, perpetrated with the connivance of government officials, if not executed by government forces themselves, gave the world the ugly gift of the Russian word "pogrom." The word has since become universalized to include mass attacks against any other ...
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