: 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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Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
The Pale is shorthand for the Pale of Settlement, an area of Eastern Europe which was, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, the only place Jews could live legally in the Russian Empire (though this didn’t prevent frequent pogroms).
—Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
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In the West Bank, Israel expanded settlements and declined to punish settlers who launched pogroms against their Palestinian neighbors.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
The Pale is shorthand for the Pale of Settlement, an area of Eastern Europe which was, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, the only place Jews could live legally in the Russian Empire (though this didn’t prevent frequent pogroms).
—Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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