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'''Pogroms''' are riots committed against [[ethnic communities]] with the intent of destroying them. Historically the term "pogrom" has been applied to [[Jews]]. Nowadays, the term can be applied to any ethnic group that is being assaulted.
'''Pogroms''' are riots committed against [[ethnic communities]] with the intent of destroying them. Historically the term "pogrom" has been applied to [[Jews]]. Pogroms began early in the 1880s in Tsarist Russia, lasting for decades. They spread west to Germany and continued through until the [[Holocaust]].
==Background==
The word originates from Russia, with a combination of the prefis po- and the verb ''gromit''. The first major pogroms occurred in what is now present-day Ukraine and Poland. Another much bloodier wave of attacks left more than two thousand dead in Odessa. Other pogroms occured in Kishinev, Limerick, Kiev, Siedlce, Adana, Tredegar, Sarajevo, Lwów, Guba City, Pinsk, Vilna, Tulsa, Hebron, and Iaşi.
==See also==
* [[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]], which originate from Russia in 1903
* [[Kristallnacht]]
[[Category:Ethnicities]]
[[Category:Ethnicities]]