Pogrom | Meaning, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEB3 days ago · Pogrom, (Russian: “devastation,” or “riot”), a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or …
Pogroms - Meaning, Russia & Jewish | HISTORY
WEB25 Jan 2018 · Pogrom is a Russian word which, when directly translated, means “to wreak havoc.” Pogroms typically describe violence by Russian authorities against Jewish people, particularly...
Pogroms | Encyclopedia.com
WEB14 May 2018 · BIBLIOGRAPHY. The term pogrom is derived from the Russian pogromit (to create a desert) and describes forcible excursions and plunder against a specific ethnic …
- nounpogrom (noun) · pogroms (plural noun)
- an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries:"the pogroms of the 1880s drove many westwards to the USA" · "the Nazis began a pogrom against Jewish people in Germany"Similar:wholesale slaughtermass slaughtermass killingmass homicidemass execution
Originlate 19th century: Yiddish and Russian, literally ‘devastation’, from pogromit ‘destroy by the use of violence’. - Some results have been removed
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