SexViolHist Bib: Types: Genocidal Rape: Anti-Jewish Pogroms

»A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times and places were renamed pogroms. Sometimes the word is used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on the specific incident, at times leading to, or culminating in, massacres.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Pogroms in Ukraine 1917-1922

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The pogroms during the Russian Civil War were a wave of mass murders of Jews, primarily in Ukraine, during the Russian Civil War. From 1918 to 1920, there were 1,500 pogroms in over 1,300 localities, in which 35,000-250,000 died. All armed forces operating in Ukraine were involved in the killings, in particular the anti-Communist Ukrainian People's Army and Armed Forces of South Russia. Jewish sources of the time estimated that more than a million people were affected by material losses, 50,000 to 300,000 children were orphaned, and half a million were driven out from or fled their homes.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: Ukrainian History

III. Topical Index: -

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Astashkevich, Irina. Gendered Violence: Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921. Boston 2018.

[Info] Astashkevich, Irina. »Gender Violence: The 1917–1922 Ukrainian Pogroms and the Challenges of Modernity.« Jewish History 33 (2020): 163-186.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Astashkevich, Irena. »The Rape during Pogroms in Ukraine in 1919.« War and Sexual Violence. New York 2016.