noun
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A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
definition
An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
Examples of pogroms in a Sentence
Dubrovin, president of the Union of the Russian People and organizer of pogroms, having written a letter of congratulation to the tsar on the occasion of the coup d'etat, received a gracious reply; the hideous reign of terror of the " Black Hundred " in Odessa did not prevent the Grand-duke Constantine from accepting the badge of membership of the Union.
What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equaled if not exceeded in foulness by the soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire.
Werth estimates that 150,000 people were killed in the anti-Semitic pogroms conducted by Denikin's troops in 1919.
It is a product of pogroms, and is itself the greatest pogrom of history.
Many other pogroms have occurred, and the condition of the Jews has been reduced to one of abject poverty and despair.
Such incidents were the Damascus charge of ritual murder (1840), the forcible baptism of the Italian child Mortara (1858), and the Russian pogroms at various dates.
The " black band " (chernaya sotnia), or " black hundreds," as they were branded by public opinion, directed their attacks especially against the Jews, and pogroms,' i.e.