Word: pogrom
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...Bible, the talk of its old people from the folklore of Sholom Aleichem and the chat ter of its young from the Bronx locutions of Arthur Kober. Abraham is a patriarch in the classic mold-huge, fork-bearded, devout. When two of his sons are mur dered in a pogrom, he flees from the Ukraine to Canada. The tragedy briefly robs Abraham of his faith in God, turns his wife Sarah into a mindless zombie, and weighs down the frail shoulders of his remaining son, Isaac, with the necessity of making up for the loss of his talented brothers...
Born in 1894, in an era of sanctioned pogroms, Babel did not need to see his father in the mud to have a firsthand knowledge of the ordeal of a Russian Jew. In The Story of My Dovecot, Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face...
Operation Sophiatown was neither a pogrom nor a Mau Mau roundup. It was the South African government's new, efficient way of enforcing its policy of apartheid (racial segregation). An all-African community with shops, churches and the only swimming pool for African kids in Johannesburg, Sophiatown is one of three "black spots" on the western side of the city, which the government has recently zoned as "predominantly European." For whites and Negroes to live in such close proximity strikes South Africa's Boer Nationalists as improper and possibly sinful...
...Slansky, powerful, Moscow-trained secretary general of the Czech Communist Party who was purged in a 1952 show trial. In explaining how Slansky-Stern went bad, Author-Journalist Wechsberg offers a somewhat oversimplified ugly-duckling theory. Bruno Stern's first experience of being unwanted is an east European pogrom in which his mother dies of a heart attack. He gets the back of society's hand again on his first day in school in a Czech mining town, when the class brutally shuns him as a new boy. Lonely, arrogant. Stern curls up with Das Kapital. When...
...with Lenin and Trotsky, Socialists, at least 30 Wehrmacht generals and several thousands of German prisoners of war, thousands of Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, executioners who worked for the SS in the Ukraine, SS men, thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Jews (some of them victims of the "little pogrom" just before Stalin's death), Armenians. Greeks, Roman Catholic priests, Frenchmen, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetans...