Word: pogroms
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...Hasidic Jew was fatally stabbed during the ensuing riots. Breindel likened the Crown Heights riots to an American pogrom...
Mobutu has to be as surprised as everyone else. He was out of the country for cancer treatment last fall when thousands of Zairean Tutsi living in the southeast rebelled in the face of a tribal pogrom supported by Mobutu's army. Led by Kabila, who has been involved in uprisings in Zaire for 30 years, well-armed fighters not only halted the pogrom but swiftly overwhelmed the government forces in the region. Kabila's Tutsi-led forces kept right on winning, and are now poised to take over the whole country...
...future political alignment of Jews in America. Danilewitz begins his argument by recounting an incident--the murder of 47 Jews in Kishinev, Russia--which was part of a very real and very long history of anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe. In introducing the example of the Russian pogrom he attempts to link this reprehensible slaughter of Jews to the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a result of what he characterizes as black malice toward Jews, he calls on the American Jewish community to "reconsider its allegiance to groups and peoples [namely, blacks] who, in the most...
...this context and with this set of psychological and experiential data that blacks evaluate their condition in America. In much the same way, the traumatic legacy of the Russian pogrom and the Nazi Holocaust shape the manner in which Jews view themselves in America and the rest of the world...
...April 19 and 20 of 1903, 47 Jews were murdered and 592 injured in Kishinev, Russia, after local citizens were incited to attack their Jewish neighbors. During the course of the pogrom, 700 Jewish homes were destroyed, 600 Jewish stores were pillaged and 2,000 Jewish families were ruined...