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[[File: | [[File:Pogrom de Chisinau - 1903 - 1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Jewish pogroms in Kishinev - 1903.]] | ||
A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups. Pogroms are commonly associated with [[genocide]], and pogroms perpetrated against Jews were often accompanied by some form of [[Blood Libel|blood libel]]. The [[Rhineland Massacres]] in 1096 are a good example of an early pogrom. | A '''pogrom''' is a violent massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term, a Yiddish variation on a Russian word meaning "thunder", originally entered the English language to describe 19th and 20th-century massacres of Jews perpetrated by Tsar [[Nicholas II]] in the Russian Empire; similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively known as pogroms. The word is now also sometimes used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups. Pogroms are commonly associated with [[genocide]], and pogroms perpetrated against Jews were often accompanied by some form of [[Blood Libel|blood libel]]. The [[Rhineland Massacres]] in 1096 are a good example of an early pogrom. | ||
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[[Category:Villainous Event]] | [[Category:Villainous Event]] | ||
[[Category:Xenophobes]] | [[Category:Xenophobes]] | ||
[[Category:Mass | [[Category:Mass Murderers]] | ||
[[Category:Oppressors]] | [[Category:Oppressors]] | ||
[[Category:Terrorists]] | [[Category:Terrorists]] | ||
[[Category:Genocidal]] | [[Category:Genocidal]] | ||
[[Category:Anti- | [[Category:Anti-Semitic]] | ||
[[Category:Anti-Religious]] | [[Category:Anti-Religious]] | ||
[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]] | |||