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The term became common after a wave of anti-Jewish violence swept the southern Russian Empire (including Ukraine) between 1881 and 1884, after Jews were blamed for the assassination of Alexander II. In May 1882, Alexander III of Russia introduced temporary regulations called May Laws that remained in effect until 1917.
The Kiev Pogroms of 1919 were splurges of looting, raping, and murder chiefly directed against the shops, factories, homes, and persons of the Jews. [7] Ukraine had the largest concentration of Jews in Russia (part of the Russian organized Pale of Settlement) at the time and was also the scene of the bitterest and most prolonged fighting ...
According to Peter Kenez, the pogroms of Jewish civilians in Ukraine in 1918–1920 were the largest case of mass murder against Jews before the Holocaust. [102] It was the first time in the history of modern Europe that uniformed armed forces murdered civilians on such a massive scale.
The history of the Jews in Odesa dates to 16th century. Since the modern city's founding in 1795, Odesa has been home to one of the largest population of Jews in what is today Ukraine. Odesa was a major center of Eastern European Jewish cultural life. From Odesa sailed the SS Ruslan which is considered the mayflower of Israeli culture.
Antisemitism in Ukraine has been a historical issue in the country, particularly in the twentieth century. The history of the Jewish community of the region dates back to the era when ancient Greek colonies existed in it. A third of the Jews of Europe previously lived in Ukraine between 1791 and 1917, within the Pale of Settlement.
2,000–33,000 Jews and Poles Massacre of the Jews, Poles and Ukrainian Uniates by haidamaks: Kiev pogrom (1881) May 7, 1881 Kyiv: Unknown Odessa pogrom (1905) October 18 and 22, 1905 Odesa: Ethnic Russian, Ukrainian, and Greek rioters 400–1,000 Jews Kiev pogrom (1905) October 31–November 2, 1905 Kyiv: Ethnic Russian, Ukrainian, etc ...
Led a rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin (Jewish father) Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. Karl Radek, Soviet politician [4] [8] [17] Yevgeny Roizman, deputy of the Russian State Duma, mayor of Yekaterinburg (Jewish father) Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik ...
The pro-Russian Ukrainians and the Ukraine-government supporters blamed each other for the exacting situation of the Jews of Kyiv, but the leaders of Ukraine's Jewish community judged that recent anti-Semitic provocations in the Crimea, including graffiti on a synagogue in Crimea's capital that read “Death to the Zhids,” were the handiwork ...