Darker Than A Thousand Pogroms: Kristallnacht and its Long Shadow
Nov 6 · 17 min read
By Robert Leonard Berkowitz

The word pogrom in Russian and Yiddish means “devastation.”
It derives from a Russian word that means to destroy, to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.
Historically, it is associated with violent outbursts against Jews that began in the 1880s and continued…

