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pogrom - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

pogrom (plural pogroms)

• A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group (usually Jews). [19th c.]
  • ✤ Coordinate term: lynching
• An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
  • ✤ More strikingly, when blood ran on the streets of Pittsburgh after the pogrom at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, Trump did not meet with community leaders of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, nor the family members of the dead, nor even the city’s mayor. He spoke with Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.¹

Verb

pogrom (third-person singular simple present pogroms, present participle pogroming, simple past and past participle pogromed)

• (transitive) To persecute or massacre a particular group of people.

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɒɡɹəm/
• (General American) IPA: /pəˈɡɹoʊm/; *alternatively * IPA: /ˈpoʊɡɹəm/
• IPA: /pəˈɡɹʌm/, /pəˈɡɹɑm/, /poʊ-/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɡɹəm, (General American) -oʊɡɹəm, (General American) -oʊm

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 2 August 2019: ↩

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