Pogrom

by Steven J. Zipperstein

  Territorialist movement, xx, 205

  theodicy, 140

  Thieves in the Night (Koestler), 2–3

  Times of London, 9, 10, 94, 168

  tobacco workplaces, Kishinev, 52, 56, 65

  Tolstoy, Leo, 92, 124, 154–55

  Torah scrolls, shredded, xx, 60, 82–83, 131

  “To the Martyrs of Kishinev” (Lilien), 83

  Toulouse school massacre (2012), 21

  Transdniestria (Pridnestrovian Moldavan Republic), 21–23

  transport:

  Bessarabia, 30, 31, 32, 34

  Kishinev, 35, 43, 44, 67–68

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 2

  Trial and Error (Weizmann), 18–19

  trials:

  Bern (1934–35), 147, 158, 169

  Eichmann (1961), 141

  of pogromists, 132, 137

  “True Americanism,” 204

  Trump, Donald, 148

  tsars, 45, 46, 79, 92

  “Two Anti-Semites” (Sholem Alei­chem), 153

  Ukrainian language, 171

  unification:

  Jewish, 165, 173

  Russia, 164

  Union of Russian Peoples (Black Hundreds), 4, 37, 147, 172, 187

  United States, xix

  Berkeley Russian Review, 196

  Chicago, 24, 193

  immigration restrictions, 102–3

  Jewish immigration to, 92, 103–4, 123

  Left, xix, xx, 185–97

  McKinley assassination (1901), 171, 189

  obligation to free Russia from barbarism, 185–89

  protest meetings, 12, 189

  race riots, xix, 187, 200–202

  racism, 186–88

  relief campaigns and demonstrations for Kishinev victims, xix, 12, 101–4, 189

  Theodore Roosevelt, 12, 189, 203–4

  Franklin Roosevelt, 1

  Supreme Court, 1

  synagogues, 5–6, 83, 103

  “True Americanism,” 204

  Trump, 148

  see also American newspapers; blacks, American; New York City

  Urussov, Sergei S. (Governor General of Bessarabia), xv, 81–82

  and Krushevan, 150, 165

  Lower Kishinev visit, 48–50, 101

  Pronin expelled by, 97

  and rivers, xv–xvii

  on Soroki, 154

  Villard, Oswald Garrison, 198

  Vilna, 2, 110, 142, 156, 177

  violence:

  antiblack, xix, 14, 186–88, 192–94, 200–201

  poetics of, 82–83, 133

  see also pogroms; rapes; riots; war

  Violette of Pere Lachaise (Strunsky), 198

  Wagner, Richard, 204

  Walling, William English, 194–203

  death, 197

  NAACP, xix, 14, 194, 198, 200–203

  Russia’s Message, xix, 195, 198, 199–200, 202

  war:

  Arab-Israeli War (1948), 20

  Crimean War (1856), 30

  Gaza war (2014), 21

  Russo-Turkish War (1878), 32–33

  World War I, 95, 128

  World War II/Nazis/Holocaust, xiii–xiv, 3, 140, 208

  see also armies

  Warburg, Aby, xiii

  Warrant for Genocide (Cohn), 146–47

  Washington, Booker T., 193

  water carrier, Jewish, 49

  weather, Kishinev pogrom, 17, 61, 63, 70, 129

  Weissman, Meyer, 73

  Weizmann, Chaim, 18–19

  West Bank, murder of three Israeli teenagers, 21

  Western Provinces map, Russia, 160

  White Army, 4, 19, 90

  Wiesel, Elie, 108

  Windsor Theater, Bowery, 105

  Wirth, Louis, 185

  Within the Pale (Davitt), xviii, 105–7

  Witte, Sergei, 7, 177

  world domination, Jewish program of, 174–79

  World Union of Freemasons and Elders of Zion, 172

  World Union of Freemasons and Sages of Zion, Znamia, 167, 172–74

  World War I, 95, 128

  World War II/Nazis/Holocaust, xiii–xiv, 3, 140, 208

  Yeselevich, Esfir (Ira Jan), 126–28, 127

  Yiddish language, 52–53, 123, 125, 156, 195

  Yiddish press, 11, 104, 158, 187, 189

  yizkor (memorial for the dead), 103

  Yom Kippur services, Frug’s “Have Pity,” 103

  Zangwill, Israel, 12, 203–5

  Zionist Congress:

  First (1897), 169

  Fifth (December 1901), 175

  Sixth (summer 1903), 14

  Zionists:

  Ahad Ha’am, 111, 113, 175–76

  Bernstein-Kogan, 89, 178–82

  Bialik, 138

  Chomsky vs., 18–19

  Davitt, 107

  Ha-Tsofeh, 140

  Herzl, 111, 175–78, 180–81

  Holy Land purchase plans, 174, 176, 177

  Jabotinsky, 140

  Jewish goals, 174, 175

  Kishinev, xix

  Kishinev pogrom impact, 13, 19–20

  Krushevan and, 173–79

  Lydda as dark secret of, 20–21

  and male cowardice, 131

  Marxist, 18

  Minsk conference (1902), 176–77

  protocols, 168

  right-wing, 7, 140

  Russian Right and, 175–79

  Strunsky and, 199

  Territorialist movement and, xx

  unification, 165, 173

  Weizmann, 18

  Zangwill, 204–5

  Znamia (St. Petersburg newspaper), 146–47, 165–67, 171, 172–74

  Zychick, Sima, 73–75

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