Sentence examples for great pogroms from inspiring English sources

For the last few days, all I have read are the chapters in Dubnov's "History of the Jews" about the great pogroms of the late Middle Ages.

Owing to popular agitation, a great pogrom against the Jews erupted in 1391 and rapidly spread throughout the peninsula.

Then no more, no more, I said to myself, no more saving Imperial Russia, the great pogrom-maker, from itself.

Exactly one year later, the greatest organized pogrom the world has ever seen occurred in Germany.

In 1881, this sentiment set off a great wave of pogroms in Russia, which, in turn, gave rise to Zionism, the effort to get the Jews out of harm's way by relocating them to what was said to be their promised land, Palestine.

Whilst in Istanbul, Fleming wrote an account of the Istanbul Pogroms, "The Great Riot of Istanbul", which was published in The Sunday Times on 11 September 1955.

In one infamous episode, thousands were lynched in a pogrom after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923.

On my mother's side, my great-grandparents escaped the Russian Pogroms to make a better life for themselves in Europe.

Hanawalt illustrates gnocchi with the same bright red surrounding her great-grandparents, as they run from pogroms in Odessa to Genoa and then Buenos Aires.

And the Christians in Ambon fear not just similar pogroms but an even greater influx of Muslim immigrants, in addition to those who have arrived in recent years, leaving them a powerless minority.There is resentment against the domination of trade by the incomers, a common complaint in parts of Indonesia that have received lots of migrants.

Still to come were Ellis Island, Jews fleeing pogroms who organized small shuls, the great migration of Southern black Protestants, refugees from World War II and the Iron Curtain, and the influx of formerly excluded Asian, Caribbean, African and Latino immigrants since the mid-1960s.