Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom.

This brief monograph examines the origins, dynamics, and repercussions of the pogrom in Kishinev on April 6-7, 1903. The first and most violent of the pogroms in the early twentieth-century Russian Empire left scores dead, hundreds wounded, and major property damage. The author draws on the available printed sources--especially the first volume of S. M. Dubnov and G. Ia. Krasnyi-Admoni (eds.), Materialy dlia istorii antievreiskikh pogrom v Rossii (Materials for the history of anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia) (Petrograd, 1919). Other sources include contemporary newspapers (local, national, and foreign), published memoirs and diaries, and some foreign archives (chiefly the papers of …