Pogroms in Kishinev
1903
At Easter, mobs in the Bessarabian city of Kishinev beat and murdered forty-nine Jews and raped, mutilated, and pillaged for two days while police looked on. News of the pogrom traveled the world and accelerated Jewish emigration to America and the first Zionist waves to Palestine. A new century's anti-Semitism had shown its face.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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