Word: pogrom
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...daughter in Moscow; both are practicing physicians. But it did not need a personal relationship for the announcement of the arrest of the Moscow doctors to make Jewish hearts everywhere miss a beat that morning. In many Jewish minds was the thought: So it has begun-the Soviet pogrom. In the trial of Rudolf Slansky and his ten Jewish Communist comrades last November on charges of "Zionism and bourgeois Jewish nationalism," there had been room for doubt. In their cynical ways the Communists might simply have been making a play for Arab support. They had taken pains to make...
Germany from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. These toted up to 8,000,000. ¶ There was another wave of 1,000,000 Germans, fleeing from East Prussia. ¶ In 1946 a pogrom in Poland sent 100,000 Jews fleeing into Germany. ¶ In 1948, when Stalin took over Czechoslovakia, a new wave began to roll: those who fled the Iron Curtain...
...remember how stricken we were when 47 Jews were killed in a pogrom in the Ukraine. We had days of mourning and fasting. But six million! That dreadful calamity-and the whole spiritual and material crisis of our time-are bringing American Jews back to the faith of their fathers...
...When I was a seminary student 40 years ago," says Finkelstein, "it seemed so clear to us that our faith could not survive here that we even wondered for what purpose in the Divine Economy the Jews had been brought to the New World." The ghetto and the pogrom had annealed Judaism in the hearts of countless generations of Jews, almost since the great dispersion. But in the freedom and prosperity of the Melting Pot, that branded faith seemed to be fading out. Says Finkelstein...
...Smoke Screen? For five months the Communists had kept the heat off Berlin. With their wiggling disruption of truck traffic from the West and the launching of Pushkin's pogrom, the heat went on again. Sly Gerhart Eisler, now propaganda boss for Eastern Germany, announced a Soviet Youth March for Whitsuntide (May 27-30). With flag and fife, said he, special "people's police" units would lead half a million members of Communist youth groups in a demonstration into Western Berlin. German anti-Communists were sure that the Reds would try to take the opportunity to provoke violence...