Sentence examples for pogroms a from inspiring English sources

"Pogroms," a Russian word that means to "wreak havoc" and "demolish violently," were driving as many as 2,000 Russian Jewish refugees to New York monthly, Lazarus biographer Esther Schor wrote.

◆ To the Editor: Dara Horn calls the suggestion that the anxiety that attends Passover may be traced to the terror Jewish ancestors felt while preparing the Seder in a time of murderous pogroms a "mystical and irrational belief in a type of memory no neurologist would recognize".

In the months following the Sumgait pogroms, a forced population exchange took place as Armenians living in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis living in Armenia were compelled to abandon their homes.

Its crowded 90 minutes include a pogrom, a primal father-son conflict and other conflagrations.

After all, we were writing about a community of poor Russian Jews facing a pogrom - a very unlikely subject for a musical.

As someone who grew up hearing her father's recollections of violent anti-Semitism in Poland, may I suggest that New York City politicians give the word "pogrom" a rest.

"This reminds me more of a pogrom than a revolution," Putin told reporters on a visit to Armenia.

It's a bit of a leap from medieval pogroms to a poorly received art exhibition.

His father, a Jewish immigrant who had fled the Russian pogroms, became a pharmacist and, later, a rabbi.

Kelly's chapter on the pogroms is a scream in the night; Cantor's is a complicated drama.

We can now see that these pogroms were a warning of what was to happen in 1915.