Pogroms
Pogroms, progressives, and Jewish memory.
The Nebi Musa riots, which happened 100 years ago last week, killed five Jews, injured hundreds, and set a pattern for decades of anti-Jewish antagonism.
A new book on the slaughter in Kishinev.
Of pogroms and animal carcasses.
When Jews did fight back in 1903, anti-Semites blamed them for instigating violence.
Eighty-seven were killed, with British collusion.
In what’s now the capital of Islamic State.
A prelude to the Holocaust?
“The Farhud was not just another anti-Jewish pogrom.”
The “global pogrom” is strikingly vulnerable.
Attempting to dominate Ukraine, “Mother Russia” has claimed to be the protector of Jews and other minorities she has long persecuted.
Next only to the Holocaust, the pogroms of World War I stand as the most horrific episode of Jewish suffering in the modern era.
The Great War, which began in the days around Tisha b’Av, 1914, saw Jews of different nationalities fighting each other in the trenches and dying. . .