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po·grom

 (pə-grŏm′, pō′grəm)
n.
An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews.

[Russian, outrage, havoc, from pogromit', to wreak havoc : po-, perfective aspectual pref. (from po, next to; see apo- in Indo-European roots) + gromit', to outrage, wreak havoc (from grom, thunder).]

po·grom′ v.
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pogrom

(ˈpɒɡrəm)
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group, esp of Jews
[C20: via Yiddish from Russian: destruction, from po- like + grom thunder]
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po•grom

(pəˈgrʌm, -ˈgrɒm, poʊ-)

n.
an organized massacre, esp. of Jews.
[1880–85; (< Yiddish) < Russian pogróm literally, destruction, devastation, n. derivative of pogromít'=po- perfective prefix + gromít' to destroy, devastate, derivative of grom thunder]
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pogrom

A deliberate organized persecution of an ethnic group, especially Jews in Russia. The name comes from Russian and Yiddish words for thunder and destruction.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pogrom - organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
persecution - the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
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pogrom

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pogrom

noun
The savage killing of many victims:
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pogrom

pogrom

[ˈpɒgrəm] Npogrom m
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pogrom

[ˈpɒgrəm] npogrom m
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pogrom

nPogrom nt
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pogrom

[ˈpɒgrəm] npogrom m inv
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While the "great" events in the history of anti-Semitismthe massacre in York in 1190, the Spanish expulsion of 1492, the Kishinev pogrom in 1903 and, above all, the Holocaustloom large in the Jewish imagination, it is the persistence of "casual," everyday anti-Semitism that reveals its deeper roots.
He should also be credited as one of the most important innovators of the genre of the pogrom story in Russian fiction, beginning with the publication of his short story about antisemitic violence, "Pogrom," in 1901.
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We see this in the prose of the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, when he suggested that the pogrom in Kielce in 1946 was the work of communist provocateurs, and not a population imbued with the propaganda of the National Armed Forces -- a nationalist armed organisation that was particularly strong in this region.
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Klier follows the lead of such authors as Hans Rogger and Michael Aronson in questioning what he calls the legend of an official pogrom policy.
Three years earlier, she witnessed the death of her Christian friend, Mikhail, and the subsequent 1903 Kishinev pogrom that bathed her hometown in blood.
There are numerous historical interpretations of the events of November 8-10, 1938, the so-called Reichskristallnacht pogrom that is generally regarded as the turning point in Nazi anti-Jewish policy and the beginning of the violent persecution culminating in the decision to exterminate European Jewry.
A pogrom takes place in a foreign country targeting a minority group, say Christians, with hundreds brutally killed by rampaging mobs, many mutilated and raped, and foetuses removed from pregnant women.