Pogrom

A pogrom is a violent/destructive riot targeting a particular group and in particular one targeting Jews.

The word is of Russian origin and was originally used to refer to pogroms targeting Jews in the Russian Empire during the 19th century. Various aspects of the usual description of these riots and their causes and effects have been criticized. The descriptions have also been argued to be exaggerated and to have been used for various propaganda purposes. See the "External links" section.

The most widely known pogrom may be the Kristallnacht, which has also been argued to have less politically correct aspects, as discussed in the Kristallnacht article.

The term has also been applied to riots targeting other groups, such as Palestinians in Israel. In those cases the perpetrators are Jewish settlers.

See also

• Black Death
• Lynching
• Pale of Settlement
• Two Hundred Years Together
• 2012 Israeli anti-Black immigrants riots

External links

Russian empire and Eastern Europe

• Revisiting the 19th-Century Russian Pogroms, Part 1: Russia’s Jewish Question
  • Myth and the Russian Pogroms, Part 2: Inventing Atrocities
  • Myth and the Russian Pogroms Part 3 – The Jewish Role
• Free to Cheat: “Jewish Emancipation” and the Anglo-Jewish Cousinhood, Part 2
• Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: “After the Murder of Alexander II” - review of chapter discussing pogroms from Two Hundred Years Together.
• The First Holocaust—The Surprising Origin of the Six-Million Figure

Black Death

• On Jews and Plagues: Adventures in Jewish Historiography

Israel

• Jewish settlers attack Palestinian village 15 September 2008.
• ANALYSIS / No other word than 'pogrom' for settler acts in Hebron Haaretz report 5 December 2008 AD .

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