1880-85; (< Yiddish) < Russianpogróm literally, destruction, devastation (of a town, country, etc., as in war), noun derivative of pogromít’, equivalent to po- perfective prefix + gromít’ to destroy, devastate, derivative of grom thunder
They want to leave the country where a war might break out from one year to the next, and from one week to the next, a pogrom.
Long before that, there is the history of blood accusation, pogrom and expulsion.
We live from pogrom to pogrom, one of my friends recently said.
My theory is that acknowledging the pogrom on the traumatized would show a lot of people in a bad light.
British Dictionary definitions for pogrom
pogrom
/ˈpɒɡrəm/
noun
1.
an organized persecution or extermination of an ethnic group, esp of Jews
Word Origin
C20: via Yiddish from Russian: destruction, from po- like + grom thunder
Word Origin and History for pogrom
n.
1882, from Yiddish pogrom, from Russian pogromu "devastation, destruction," from po- "by, through, behind, after" (cognate with Latin post-; see post-) + gromu "thunder, roar," from PIE imitative root *ghrem- (see grim).
pogrom in Culture
pogrom [(puh-grum, puh-grom, poh-gruhm)]
A massacre or persecution instigated by the government or by the ruling class against a minority group, particularly Jews.
Note: Pogroms were common in Russia during the nineteenth century.