pogrom

How To Use pogrom In A Sentence

• In Britain and America this was the century of Jewish immigration, with great numbers of Jewish people arriving to escape the pogroms in Poland and Russia.
• When Jews carry out a pogrom in Akko, whatever the immediate reason, it becomes a national event. Counterpunch shouldn’t print this drivel
• Jews were allowed to live freely in the country, and those fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe and the Nazi terror were also able to take up residence.
• It will be a greater blow than would be a dozen pogroms.
• I don't want to use the word pogrom, it would be too strong. Ezra Levant: March 2008 Archives
• Pogroms in Europe and those deeply entrenched dreams kept the ships coming.
• My parents fled Eastern Europe to escape pogroms which began with the ringing of church bells.
• But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee. From October to Brest-Litovsk
• A word pogrom is used mostly in relation with a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by the killing and destruction of their homes, businesses, and religious centers. Cafebabel.com
• However, in Czarist Russia, most of the pogroms were government organized.