1881 ⟶ Pogroms in Southern Russia and Mass Emigration
Pogroms sweep southern Russia, propelling mass Jewish emigra...
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1834
1875
1881
1882
🏚️ Looting and Attack on Safed's Jewish Community
The 1834 looting of Safed was a month-long attack on the Jewish population of Safed by local Arab and Druze villagers. It was full of large scale looting, as well as the killing and raping of Jews and the destruction of many homes and synagogues. Before the attacks Jews made up over 50% of the population, but many of them fled to nearby cities which reduced their presence drastically.⟶
PogromViolenceLootingSafedOttoman Empire19th CenturyJewish Community
Israel
🚪 Pogroms in Southern Russia and Mass Emigration
Pogroms sweep southern Russia, propelling mass Jewish emigration from the Pale of Settlement: about 2 million Russian Jews emigrated in period 1880–1924, many of them to the United States (until the National Origins Quota of 1924 and Immigration Act of 1924 largely halted immigration to the U.S. from Eastern Europe and Russia). The Russian word "pogrom" becomes international.⟶
PogromViolenceEmigrationRussiaUnited States19th centuryMass ViolencePale of Settlement
Russia
United States
📜 May Laws in Russia
A series of "temporary laws" by Tsar Alexander III of Russia (the May Laws), which adopted a systematic policy of discrimination, with the object of removing the Jews from their economic and public positions, in order to "cause one-third of the Jews to emigrate, one-third to accept baptism and one-third to starve" (according to a remark attributed to Konstantin Pobedonostsev)⟶
May LawsDiscriminationRussiaAlexander IIIEmigrationPersecution19th century
Russia