{"id":8847,"date":"2019-09-24T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:52:36","slug":"pogrom-kishinev-and-the-tilt-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/humanities-2\/pogrom-kishinev-and-the-tilt-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/35056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/rokupicts\/35056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia, has been described as foreshadowing the Holocaust itself. In April 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed during three days of violence in the Eastern European city. <\/p>\n<p>Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, discusses how the attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype of what would become known as a pogrom and providing the impetus for efforts such as &ldquo;The Protocols of the Elders of Zion&rdquo; and the NAACP. <\/p>\n<p>Zipperstein brings historical insight and clarity to a much-misunderstood event that would do so much to transform twentieth-century Jewish life and beyond. The pogrom was well documented but mythology played a key role in the aftermath of the event. Kishinev came to seem as the prelude to the Holocaust with its state-directed mob violence. Zipperstein explains why he is skeptical of this determinism and explores some of the distortions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/35056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch \u2014 Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History with Steven Zipperstein<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia, has been described as foreshadowing the Holocaust itself. In April 1903, 49 Jews were killed, 600 raped or wounded, and more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed during three days of violence in the Eastern European city. Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[979,620,30,996,64],"tags":[1421,1422,984],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}