Sunday, March 20, 2016

The Russian Pogroms were against the Jews, not good history my Jewish friend

The Jews have face many hardship from the Russians. When we read about the Russian Pogroms.
The word Pogrom meaning in Russia is "to wreak havoc, to demolish violently."
Pogroms in Odessa in the year of 1821, this is modern day Ukraine.
There were execution of the Greek Orthodox patriarch Gregory V in Constantinople, in which 14 Jews were killed.
The year of 1881-1884 did major wave of anti-Jewish riots were in south-western Imperial Russia, this is modern day Ukraine and Poland. This period had over 200 anti-Jewish events.
The trigger for these pogroms was the assassination of Tsar Alexander II  , for which some blamed "the Jews".The extent to which the Russian press was responsible for encouraging perceptions of the assassination as a Jewish act has been disputed.
There were major problems so these pogroms thousands of Jewish homes were destroyed, many families were reduced to poverty, and large numbers of men, women, and children were injured in 166 towns in the southwest provinces of the Empire such as Ukraine on Jewish communities.
Tsar Alexander III initially blamed revolutionaries and the Jews themselves for the riots and in May 1882 issued the May Laws, a series of harsh restrictions on Jews. So many Russian Jews went to the United States for a better place.
There were at least 40 Jews that were killed during pogroms during April to December 1881.
Of these, 17, were killed while being raped and there were 225 Jewish women that were raped.
The Jewish leaders in London was slow to speak about these evil events.
Public meetings were held by Jewish and Christian leaders in Great Britain spoke out against  the atrocities.
The year of 1903-1906 became more bloody. There were 2,000 Jews that were dead or wounded.
The Jews took arms to defend themselves and their families from the attackers.
It was believed that 2,500 Jews were killed in Odessa because of pogrom.
The New York Times  described the First Kishinev pogrom   of Easter 1903:
"The anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev, Bessarabia [modern Moldova], are worse than the censor will permit to publish. There was a well laid-out plan for the general massacre of Jews on the day following the Orthodox Easter. The mob was led by priests, and the general cry, "Kill the Jews", was taken up all over the city. The Jews were taken wholly unaware and were slaughtered like sheep. The dead number 120 [Note: the actual number of dead was 47–48] and the injured about 500. The scenes of horror attending this massacre are beyond description. Babies were literally torn to pieces by the frenzied and bloodthirsty mob. The local police made no attempt to check the reign of terror. At sunset the streets were piled with corpses and wounded. Those who could make their escape fled in terror, and the city is now practically deserted of Jews."
Number of pogroms caused issues among 64 towns and 626 small towns. Even outside these main outbreaks, pogroms remained common; there was an anti-Jewish riot in Odessa in 1905 in which thousands were killed in total.
I don't like this history but it occurred. The Jewish mind set was hurt. There were two millions Russians 
Jews went to the UK and United States from 1880 to 1914.






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