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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

pogroms

The stone steps leading up to Clifford's Tower, York, site of the most notorious anti-Semitic bloodshed in medieval English history. (Times of Israel staff)
August 24, 2023, 11:42 pm
New research shows York’s Jewish community recovered after infamous pogrom of 1190
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
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Looking down from the parapet into York's Clifford's Tower, where reconstruction work is currently under way, October 2019. (ToI staff)
August 8, 2023, 6:21 am
York gets first rabbi since community decimated by infamous 1190 pogrom
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
By Jackie Hajdenberg
An official shows the signed document which proclaims the establishment of the new Jewish state of Israel declared by prime minister David Ben-Gurion, left, in Tel Aviv at midnight on May 14, 1948. (AP Photo)
May 5, 2022, 12:15 pm
Daily Briefing May 5: On Independence Day, digging up the roots of Israeli society
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
By ToI Staff
British Jews marching in protest of the 1918-1921 pogroms. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Veidlinger)
December 21, 2021, 3:58 am
20 years before the Holocaust, pogroms killed 100,000 Jews – then were forgotten
‘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
By Rich Tenorio
A Polish nationalist holds a sign reading "We demand the truth about Jedwabne," at the site of a Holocaust pogrom in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)
July 15, 2021, 9:36 pm
Polish nationalists disrupt commemoration for Jewish pogrom victims
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
By Katarzyna Markusz
A man riding his bicycle is reflected on an old picture of Jaffa displayed in a window, in the Jaffa neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
May 1, 2021, 4:15 pm
1921 Jaffa riots 100 years on: Mandatory Palestine’s 1st ‘mass casualty’ attack
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
By Oren Kessler
Clockwise from top left: A man outside the mass grave of Jews killed in the Farhud (public domain); center: an undated recent photo of Daniel and Shulamit Sasson; the Diwaniya ghetto, Sasson's grandfather's house (both photos courtesy); Iraqi Jews arriving at Lod Airport in Israel, May 1, 1951 (GPO / BRAUNER TEDDY); a monument in Ramat Gan to Jews slain in the Farhud and in violence in the 1960s (CC-BY-2.5/ Dr. Avishai Teicher)
March 3, 2021, 12:44 am
85-year-old Israeli testifies to Nazi-inspired pogrom that massacred Iraqi Jewry
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
By Lynette Hacopian
Illustrative: Former Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko speaks during official meeting marking the 130th anniversary of Symon Petlyura's birth, Kiev, Wednesday, May 27, 2009, with Petlyura's, left, and members of his army photos in the background. In 1921 after Ukraine finally fell under Soviet authority Petlyura moved to Paris, where in 1926 he was fatally shot in revenge for the deaths of Jews during pogroms staged by members of his army. (AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Mykola Lazarenko, Pool)
December 8, 2020, 4:20 pm
Ukraine Jewish prof. claims he was fired for protesting controversial statue
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
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (public domain)
June 19, 2020, 3:14 pm
Using blood libel tactics, white mob massacred 300 blacks in 1921 Tulsa ‘pogrom’
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
By Matt Lebovic
Janusz Korwin-Mikke speaking at the Polish parliament in Warsaw on June 26, 2015. (Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
March 4, 2020, 8:20 pm
Far-right Polish lawmaker: Natural selection via pogroms made Jews powerful
‘There are even theories that rabbis deliberately provoke pogroms precisely so that Jews survive,’ claims Janusz Korwin-Mikke
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Poland's Krzysztof Piatek celebrates with teammates after scoring his side's opening goal during the Euro 2020 group G qualifying soccer match between Poland and Israel at the Narodowy stadium in Warsaw, Poland, June 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 12, 2019, 1:57 pm
Polish soccer association celebrates victory over Israeli team as a ‘pogrom’
With relations between countries fraying, federation uses loaded term associated with anti-Semitic massacres to describe 4-0 drubbing
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative image of a Torah scroll. (iStock by Getty Images/Katy Lozano)
October 8, 2018, 5:21 pm
Restored fragment of pre-war Torah scroll displayed at site of Polish pogrom
Surviving parchment found in Kielce Market Square after Holocaust is relic of destroyed 20,000-strong Jewish community
By JTA
Rena Rossner, author of 'The Sisters of the Winter Wood,' September 20, 2018, in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2018, 4:17 am
Book world’s hot new fantasy author is an Orthodox Jew with a magical shtetl
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’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A Yiddish newspaper comic depicting a noted intellectual as praying to Karl Marx. (Yale University Press)
August 27, 2018, 3:01 pm
How the stereotype of Jews and money goes beyond the Pale (of Settlement)
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
By JP O’ Malley
A Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. (public domain)
April 9, 2018, 5:05 am
How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history
Until the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was the archetype for anti-Jewish persecution, according to a new book about the massacre’s long afterlife
By Matt Lebovic
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