19th century
Christmas pogrom
25-27 décembre 1881·Varsovie
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the panic in the church of the Holy Cross serves as pretext for three days of riots, a thousand Jewish houses and shops looted
On the twenty-fifth of December, a panic broke out in the Church of the Holy Cross in Varsovie, causing many deaths in the crowd. Rumor immediately accused the Jews, and three days of riots followed: a thousand Jewish homes and shops were pillaged.
Varsovie had until then been considered an exception within the Empire, the Congress Poland having experienced a movement of assimilation and rapprochement between Polish and Jewish elites. The Christmas pogrom put an end to this trust. It occurred moreover at the close of a decade during which the Polish press had begun to frame the Jewish question in economic terms — and it is this framing, more than the rumor, that made the riot possible.
- Period :
- 19th century
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Presse polonaise et juive de Varsovie ; rapports de police.