==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[[Kyiv]], Siedlce, Adana, Tredegar, Sarajevo, Lwów, Guba City, Pinsk, Vilna, Tulsa, [[Hebron]], and Iaşi.
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