: an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically
: such a massacre of Jews
pogromed; pogroming; pogroms
: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom
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Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
Conquest, war, famine and death, disease and pogroms had been the driving forces behind the great migrations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
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Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s.
—Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
Conquest, war, famine and death, disease and pogroms had been the driving forces behind the great migrations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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