![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They raped and murdered their Jewish victims and looted their property. The perpetrators of pogroms organized locally, sometimes with government and police encouragement. As a descriptive term, “pogrom” came into common usage with extensive anti-Jewish riots that swept the southern and western provinces of the Russian Empire in 1881–1884, following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. The first such incident to be labeled a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in Odessa in 1821. Pogroms Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries. ![]()
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