Definition of pogrom
: an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews
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Anjum gets caught in pogroms against Muslims in a way that nearly destroys her.
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As independence drew near, anti-Tutsi pogroms broke out.
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Both her grandparents were Jews who settled in Africa after fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe.
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Ron Drucker was the son of two poor Jewish immigrants -- one, my grandmother, who fled the pogroms of Poland, the other, my grandfather (and namesake), who came to America from Montreal.
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They were soon followed by Russian Jews fleeing pogroms, and then aristocrats driven out by the Bolshevik Revolution and White Russian troops seeking refuge after defeat in civil war.
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Of the 90,000 Jews who had settled in Palestine prior to the war, many were refugees who had fled Russian pogroms.
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The Chechen authorities’ response to the global outrage over the pogrom has provoked new incredulity.
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Across New York’s Russian districts—including places where huge numbers of Jews who had fled the tsar’s pogroms had settled—
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Origin and Etymology of pogrom
Yiddish, from Russ, literally, devastation
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Definition of pogrom
transitive verb
: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom
First Known Use of pogrom
1915
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playDefinition of pogrom for English Language Learners
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: the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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