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187 years after deadly Iran pogrom, Mashhad crypto-Jews are focus of Jerusalem exhibit

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:44:09 +0000

Now at Israel's National Library, display shows how the Jewish community of Iranian city outwardly acted as Muslims for over a century after a massacre on March 26, 1839

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New research shows York’s Jewish community recovered after infamous pogrom of 1190

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:42:05 +0000

Local university says that around 20 years later 'there was once more a thriving Jewish community' in the city, before Jews were ultimately expelled from England in 1290

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York gets first rabbi since community decimated by infamous 1190 pogrom

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 03:21:12 +0000

Rabbi Elisheva Salamo takes up residence as part-time clergy for York Liberal Jewish Community, as city long associated with Crusader tower massacre rebuilds Jewish life

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Daily Briefing May 5: On Independence Day, digging up the roots of Israeli society

Thu, 05 May 2022 09:15:25 +0000

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes time out from his family BBQ to elucidate what it was like for Jews the days before and after May 5, 1948

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20 years before the Holocaust, pogroms killed 100,000 Jews – then were forgotten

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 01:58:56 +0000

'In the Midst of Civilized Europe' by Jeffrey Veidlinger revisits the brutal violence in 1918-1921 that portended a genocide of Europe's Jews, and was soon overshadowed by it

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Polish nationalists disrupt commemoration for Jewish pogrom victims

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:36:34 +0000

Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says protests at memorial for Jedwabne pogrom point to a 'very serious issue' involving Polish government’s stance on Holocaust memory

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1921 Jaffa riots 100 years on: Mandatory Palestine’s 1st ‘mass casualty’ attack

Sat, 01 May 2021 13:15:17 +0000

Among the some 150 casualties was Hebrew-language literature giant Yosef Haim Brenner, who was buried with dozens of other slaughtered Jews in a common grave in Tel Aviv

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85-year-old Israeli testifies to Nazi-inspired pogrom that massacred Iraqi Jewry

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:44:16 +0000

Iraqi-born Daniel Sasson recounts firsthand how in the early 1940s, Hitler-emulating dictator Rashid Ali al-Gaylani sent Jews to ghettos and firing squads in the Middle East

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Ukraine Jewish prof. claims he was fired for protesting controversial statue

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:20:21 +0000

Zoriy Fine says he was dismissed after 2 weeks at Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University after contesting a memorial to a military leader whose troops massacred 35,000-50,000 Jews

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Using blood libel tactics, white mob massacred 300 blacks in 1921 Tulsa ‘pogrom’

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:14:15 +0000

In two days of slaughter, a racist offensive including police and air bombers destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma's all-black Greenwood district. None of the perpetrators ever faced justice

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Far-right Polish lawmaker: Natural selection via pogroms made Jews powerful

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:20:28 +0000

'There are even theories that rabbis deliberately provoke pogroms precisely so that Jews survive,' claims Janusz Korwin-Mikke

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Polish soccer association celebrates victory over Israeli team as a ‘pogrom’

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:57:10 +0000

With relations between countries fraying, federation uses loaded term associated with anti-Semitic massacres to describe 4-0 drubbing

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Restored fragment of pre-war Torah scroll displayed at site of Polish pogrom

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:21:23 +0000

Surviving parchment found in Kielce Market Square after Holocaust is relic of destroyed 20,000-strong Jewish community

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Book world’s hot new fantasy author is an Orthodox Jew with a magical shtetl

Sun, 23 Sep 2018 01:17:42 +0000

Judaism is the jumping off point for Rena Rossner's 'The Sisters of the Winter Wood,' a Yiddish-inflected retelling of Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'

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How the stereotype of Jews and money goes beyond the Pale (of Settlement)

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:01:25 +0000

A unique Jewish relationship with materialism has roots grounded in tradition, says scholar Eliyahu Stern. But anti-Semites have historically subverted it to suit their propaganda

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