Pogrom

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A pogrom is a violent attack aimed against a person or personal property based on the victim's ethnic, religious, or social background or lifestyle.

"Pogrom" was a term originally used for race riots against Jewish communities, but has also been used since in reference to other groups.

[edit] Examples of modern-day pogroms

  • The Russian Tsarist rule of government of the 19th century was renowned for its cruelty towards the Jewish population of Russia.
  • Nazi Germany was also home to Jewish pogroms in the late 1930s; the most well known pre-war pogrom was Kristallnacht ("The Night of the Broken Glass").
  • The Crown Heights riot, a three-day riot against Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, by a Caribbean and American mob partially instigated to action by the Reverend Al Sharpton.
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