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Jewish Cemetery
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Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
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Jewish Cemetery
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The term pogrom has multiple meanings, ascribed most often to the deliberate persecution of an ethnic or religious group either approved or condoned by the local authorities. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the term is usually applied to anti-Jewish violence in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been extended to include any attacks against Jews and physical destruction of Jewish property, as well as looting of Jewish homes and businesses, throughout history. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on the specific incidents, at times leading to, or culminating in, massacres. All outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence have become retrospectively known as pogroms.The Russian-language term was adopted in the English language in order to describe the mass violence of 1881 and 1882 that was directed against Jews within the Pale of Settlement which was first created by Catherine the Great in what would become most of present-day Ukraine and Belarus, as well as parts of Lithuania, Moldova and Poland. The term pogrom is sometimes used, as well, to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish ethnic or religious groups.
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