Sentence examples for russian Pogroms from inspiring English sources

The Russian Pogroms candle.

My father, God bless his soul, came here from Odessa, escapting the Russian pogroms.

She'd been born in 1899 to Jewish parents who'd escaped the Russian pogroms.

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

Seeking refuge from Russian pogroms, he hoped to explore "the Golden Land" his readers were settling in and earn needed money as a playwright.

Strauss's own experience -- he witnessed Russian pogroms as a child and barely escaped the Holocaust -- alerted him to the perils of history.

An immigrant who escaped a Russian pogrom crosses America.1062SWEET REVENGE, by Diane Mott Davidson.

Her husband, parents and neighbors were wiped out in a Russian pogrom, which the book summons with brutal power.

Her latest novel and fifth book, "Away," about a young woman who comes to this country after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, is due in bookstores on Aug. 28.

Her 2007 novel, Away, explored the odyssey of Lilian Leyb, a 23-year-old survivor of a Russian pogrom, who decides to return to Siberia in search of her daughter.

We see her morphing from terrified victim of a Russian pogrom to resourceful migrant worker, from well-dressed mistress of a rich New Yorker to inmate of a women's prison, from prostitute's servant to long-distance traveller across the north American wilderness.