Pogrom
noun
An organized and often violent attack on a particular group of people, specifically those of a certain ethnicity or religion.
The Jews were often victims of pogroms in Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Often appears as...
- jewish pogroms
- initiate a pogrom
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Formal
Historical
noun
An organized and often violent attack on a particular group of people, specifically those of a certain ethnicity or religion.
The Jews were often victims of pogroms in Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Often appears as...
- jewish pogroms
- initiate a pogrom
Usage tips
Formal
Historical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Violence
Pogroms are historical events where violence targeted specific communities, shaping their social and historical identity.
The pogrom against the Armenian community left a lasting impact on their history.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Term
'Pogrom' carries emotional weight due to its tragic associations, so use it with respect to historical sensitivity.
The documentary explored the pogroms faced by immigrant groups with great sensitivity.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Generic Violence
The word 'pogrom' isn't used for general violence; it's specific to organized, targeted attacks on groups.
The 1905 Odessa pogrom specifically targeted the city's Jewish population.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Violence
Pogroms are historical events where violence targeted specific communities, shaping their social and historical identity.
The pogrom against the Armenian community left a lasting impact on their history.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Term
'Pogrom' carries emotional weight due to its tragic associations, so use it with respect to historical sensitivity.
The documentary explored the pogroms faced by immigrant groups with great sensitivity.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Generic Violence
The word 'pogrom' isn't used for general violence; it's specific to organized, targeted attacks on groups.
The 1905 Odessa pogrom specifically targeted the city's Jewish population.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Violence
Pogroms are historical events where violence targeted specific communities, shaping their social and historical identity.
The pogrom against the Armenian community left a lasting impact on their history.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Term
'Pogrom' carries emotional weight due to its tragic associations, so use it with respect to historical sensitivity.
The documentary explored the pogroms faced by immigrant groups with great sensitivity.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Generic Violence
The word 'pogrom' isn't used for general violence; it's specific to organized, targeted attacks on groups.
The 1905 Odessa pogrom specifically targeted the city's Jewish population.
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In search of Toscanini’s...
delightful pogrom you know one too many that's enough of that and they took this ship the Polonia bound for Palestine now Israel and on the ship there was an epic event a sailor gave my mother and orange which became the stuff of legend in my family sailor orange and I just wanted to say
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Safari Live - Day 150 PIPE...
this die hid repose and contort us we have to do this one see everybody I know all if most of you have seen this before but I shall do it for those the benefit of those who have not here we have the alms of die hetra pogrom con tortoise
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The surprising decline...
in deadly ethnic riots or pogroms and in military coups, even in South America. Worldwide, there's been a steep decline in deaths in interstate wars. The yellow bars here show the number of deaths per war per year
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In search of Toscanini’s...
delightful pogrom you know one too many that's enough of that and they took this ship the Polonia bound for Palestine now Israel and on the ship there was an epic event a sailor gave my mother and orange which became the stuff of legend in my family sailor orange and I just wanted to say
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 150 PIPE...
this die hid repose and contort us we have to do this one see everybody I know all if most of you have seen this before but I shall do it for those the benefit of those who have not here we have the alms of die hetra pogrom con tortoise
Video examples
The surprising decline...
in deadly ethnic riots or pogroms and in military coups, even in South America. Worldwide, there's been a steep decline in deaths in interstate wars. The yellow bars here show the number of deaths per war per year
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Quote examples
Jacob Epstein
British Sculptor
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Dianne Feinstein
American Politician
At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft - the Goldman Oil Supply Company.
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Jonathan Sacks
British Clergyman
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
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Amy Bloom
American Writer
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.
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Harold Brodkey
American Author
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Canadian Businessman
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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Sebastian Junger
American Author
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother, who escaped as a young girl from Communist Hungary in 1950.
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Andrzej Duda
Polish Politician
The members of my people who took part in the pogrom in Kielce after the end of World War II expelled themselves from the Polish people. That is my deep personal conviction.
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J. B. Pritzker
Argentinian Businessman
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Jacob Epstein
British Sculptor
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Dianne Feinstein
American Politician
At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft - the Goldman Oil Supply Company.
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Jonathan Sacks
British Clergyman
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Quote examples
Amy Bloom
American Writer
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.
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Harold Brodkey
American Author
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Canadian Businessman
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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Sebastian Junger
American Author
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother, who escaped as a young girl from Communist Hungary in 1950.
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Andrzej Duda
Polish Politician
The members of my people who took part in the pogrom in Kielce after the end of World War II expelled themselves from the Polish people. That is my deep personal conviction.
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J. B. Pritzker
Argentinian Businessman
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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