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An American political illustration from soon after the Kishinev pogrom. President Theodore Roosevelt is pictured, admonishing Tsar Nicholas II for his treatment of Russia's Jewish population. (Public Domain) On this day in 1903, an angry mob began attacking Jewish people in Moldova's capital city, Kishinev. Then a part of the Russian Empire, Kishinev had recently…
Captain Dreyfus is depicted symbolically breaking his sword, and submitting to military justice. (TimesofIsrael.com) On this day in 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus - a Jewish Alsatian - was wrongfully convicted of treason by the government of the French Third Republic. His prosecutor argued that Dreyfus had smuggled military secrets to the German Empire.…
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