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Example sentences for "pogrom"

Lexicographically close words:
poetized; poetries; poetry; poets; pogonia; pogroms; poi; poia; poiche; poids
  1. These gentry know well the precise points where a pogrom can most easily be started.

  2. Is there in Great Britain enough real sympathy with Small Nationalities, enough real hatred of militarism, to frustrate this Pogrom Plot of British Militarist Junkerdom?

  3. We're surely not going to set Ireland back a hundred years by such a pogrom as followed '98.

  4. We have seen that before the second partition of Poland such an "encounter" assumed the shape of a pogrom in the Polish capital.

  5. The recently published records of the court proceedings in the Cracow pogrom of 1407 show that its principal instigators were German artisans and merchants who resided in that city.

  6. If we don't prevent it, Erikson will precipitate a pogrom that will make the Canalopolis massacre look like a tea-party.

  7. Boris had been living and painting in London for some years; his home had been in Moscow; he had barely escaped with his life from a pogrom in 1912, and had since then lived in England.

  8. They remembered that pogrom fifty years ago, and described it.

  9. It may be noted in passing that two Arabs caught raping Jewish girls during the pogrom received the same sentence as Jabotinsky, whose only crime was that he was a Jew.

  10. Who could ever have thought that a pogrom "a la Russe," with all its horrors, could take place in Jerusalem under British rule!

  11. The pogrom was confined to that part of Jerusalem within the walls of the old City, where the Moslems greatly outnumber the Jews--in fact the latter are here a small and helpless minority.

  12. The procession of the Pogrom was led by about ten Catholic (Greek) Sisters with about forty or fifty of their school children.

  13. This meant that the Pogrom (massacre) was going on.

  14. The pogrom started in Podol, a part of the town densely populated by Jews.

  15. It was only on April 27--when the pogrom broke out afresh--that the authorities resolved to put a stop to it.

  16. The pogrom at Balta called forth a new outburst of the emigration panic, and in the summer of 1882 some twenty thousand Jewish refugees were again huddled together in the Galician border-town of Brody.

  17. But on the second day the pogrom was renewed with greater energy and better leadership, amidst the suspicious inactivity both of the military and police authorities.

  18. The anti-Semitic bacilli were floating in the social atmosphere of Russia and preparing the way for the pogrom epidemic of the following decade.

  19. Least of all was this pogrom expected in Warsaw itself, where the relations between the Poles and the Jews were not yet marked by the animosity they assumed subsequently.

  20. The Polish patriots from among the higher classes were shocked by this attempt to engineer a barbarous Russian pogrom in Warsaw.

  21. But at the end of his "rovings" the hero ultimately attains to a synthesis of Jewish nationalism and European progress, and ends by sacrificing his life while defending his brethren during the Odessa pogrom of 1871.

  22. The ringleaders of the pogrom movement were not local residents but itinerant laborers from the Great-Russian governments, who were employed in building a railroad in the neighborhood of the South-Russian city.

  23. I remember a time when I thought a pogrom had broken out in our street, and I wonder that I did not die of fear.

  24. Often we heard that the pogrom was led by a priest carrying a cross before the mob.

  25. In the foyer of one of the private theatres a small committee of local barristers who had undertaken to conduct the cases of those who had suffered in the last pogrom against the Jews was reaching the end of its daily task.

  26. Through secret news we received from certain Chinese quarters we learned that the Chinese were preparing a pogrom for all the Russians and Mongols in Uliassutai.

  27. Once more the days of expecting a pogrom in Uliassutai returned to us.

  28. It was not the ancient, insensate hatred inspired by belief that the Jews kill Christian children in their Paschal rites which made the Kishinev pogrom possible.

  29. Michael Davitt called attention to the fact that in the Kishinev pogrom it was not the rich Jews who were the victims, but Jewish workingmen and their families.

  30. This pogrom was carried on by the guerrilla bands led by "atamans" Makhno and Grigoriev, together with regular Bolshevist troops.

  31. The Pogrom Victims' Relief Committee of the Russian Red Cross Society published a report of its investigations of the Jewish pogroms in southern Russia during the period when General Denikin's forces were fighting the Bolsheviki.

  32. The pogrom was directed exclusively against the Jews, and the Christian population of the city did not suffer in the least.

  33. Once more I quote from the article by Kossovsky: In the provinces the pogrom mania invaded even the Soviets, not mentioning the Red Army which became more and more infected with it.

  34. Here, too, it was known beforehand that a pogrom was in the course of preparation.

  35. It was part of this plan to engineer somewhere a barbarous anti-Jewish pogrom in order to intimidate the Jewish revolutionaries and to put it forward as a protest of the "Russian people" against the "Jewish revolution.

  36. The authorities made it known that the Tzar was not in favor of riots, and a bloody street pogrom was averted.

  37. Well, now, for example, I am reading a description of some pogrom or of a slaughter in jail, or of a riot being put down.

  38. The reason that no joint protest was issued by the Confessing Church after the pogrom of November, 1938.

  39. The answer of the government was--another pogrom of merciless savagery.

  40. See the "Report of the Duma Commission on the Pogrom at Bialystok," published in the London Jewish Chronicle, July 1906.

  41. The same prominent estate owner told me that one day he asked some of his peasants if they really had partaken in a Pogrom which had taken place in the neighboring parish--he could not believe it, as they looked so good-natured.

  42. Similar acts occurred in several other places, until the Russian Government stopped this pogrom movement in order to prevent the Polish nationalism from getting stronger.

  43. To our surprise it was not easy at first to set in motion an extensive pogrom against Jews.

  44. Unlike the boycott action in April 1933, when care was taken to avoid extensive violence, an allegedly spontaneous pogrom was staged and carried out all over Germany.


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