The word "pogroms" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun referring to organized, often violent attacks against an ethnic, racial, or religious group. For example: "The story of the Jewish people is full of grief and tragedy, including the pogroms of Tsarist Russia."
The Kristallnacht pogroms presaged attempts to remove Jews from German life completely.
During these pogroms, 91 Jews were killed, thousands were taken from their homes and incarcerated in concentration camps, 267 synagogues were destroyed, and some 7,500 Jewish-owned shops were smashed and looted.
People who live in districts from which Jews were likeliest to be sent to concentration camps under the Nazis are 7.5% less likely to invest in stocks than other Germans; those who live in districts where pogroms occurred during the Black Death (back in the 14th century) are 12% less likely to do so.
So German districts close to the valley were more likely to have pogroms, and people there are less likely to invest in stocks than those further away.
She ignored the stated purpose of the colossal sculpture (a French-built homage to America's republican government) focusing instead on her concern over Jewish pogroms in Russia.
Ethnic Kyrgyz say the Uzbeks started the violence, and that Kyrgyz were killed in pogroms, too.
European Jewry faced extinction at the hands of the Nazis, but Jews who had fled eastern Europe's pogroms for America two generations earlier already felt safe and established there.
Award: Natasha Loder Reprints Related items The strange allure of the slumsMay 3rd 2007For their own protection and to avoid the sort of anti-migrant pogroms that swept through South Africa's cities last year many urban refugees are trying to blend anonymously into the shanty-towns where they find shelter of sorts.
Without a homeland, Jews faced a dual peril: not just pogroms and gas-chambers, but slow, subtle assimilation, as they married out and blended in.
By contrast, in Congress-run Assam this summer dozens of people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands displaced because of rioting and pogroms as Muslims and Bodo tribesmen clash.
THE sight of Jews lying dead in a Jerusalem synagogue, their prayer-shawls and holy books drenched in pools of blood, might be drawn from the age of pogroms in Europe.
