by hadassah | Sep 11, 2017 | Pogroms
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “Pogrom” was first used in the Times of London on 17 March 1882 (“ That the ‘Pogromen must be stopped…”), The Yiddish plural ending betrays the route that the word took into English. In the former Soviet Union, the...
by hadassah | Sep 11, 2017 | Pogroms
May 3, 1882 Pogroms and The May Laws The May Laws proposed by Count Ignatiev and sanctioned by the Czar were called the May Laws because they were issued in the month of May. These laws curtailed Jewish residences in villages and started quotas in universities so...
by hadassah | Sep 11, 2017 | Pogroms
August 3rd, 1890 Programs In Russia and US House of Representation Session: 51st Congress 1st US House of Representatives, Report No.2961 Jews In Russia August 13, 1890- Referred to the house calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. HITT, from the Committee of Foreign...
by hadassah | Sep 5, 2017 | Pogroms
Source: www.houdinifile.com
by hadassah | Sep 5, 2017 | Pogroms
April 6-7 1903 Kishineff Pogram “The Kishinev progrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, which was back then part of the Bessarabia province of Imperial Russia (currently Chisinau is the capital of independent Moldova). It started on April 6 and...
by hadassah | Sep 5, 2017 | Pogroms
Houdini visited Kishinev after the massacre, ‘horrified.’ Nothing like it, he declared, could happen in any country but Russia. In a column for the Dramatic Mirror two years later, he offered fellow entertainers bitter advice on managing to perform in Moscow...
