Mayor of Moldova's once heavily Jewish capital seeks foreign funds as a gesture commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nazis' defeat.

Jewish graves desecrated and antisemitic graffiti painted on synagogue in Chisinau raise serious concern within Moldova’s Jewish community. Chief Rabbi Pinchas Zaltzman urges authorities to take ...

But the 1903 pogrom still symbolizes Jewish suffering in Moldova. Local Jews can show guests a section in the old Kishinev Jewish cemetery where some victims were buried.

Unknown persons vandalized the Jewish cemetery in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau at the end of last month, around Halloween, reinforcing an impression that anti-Semitism remains alive and well ...

One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1903, the Jewish community of Kishinev in what was then czarist Russia suffered two days of mob violence that shocked the world and changed the course of Jewish ...

Jews wanted to bring the pogromists to justice. The Jewish Historical Commission in Odessa sent Bialik to Kishinev to interview those Jews who survived and to prepare a report on the pogrom.

The Kishinev pogrom in Russia shocked the world and bolstered the Zionism movement to protect Jews from attacks like the very one that hit Israel last Saturday.

On Easter in 1903, mobs of anti-Semites tore through the Jewish section of Kishinev, a provincial town on the western edge of the Russian empire. In just 1 1/2 days, in a cluster of streets and ...

Easter of 1903 in the Bessarabian capital of Kishinev a mob of hundreds fanned out across the Jewish community and wreaked upon them horrific violence, a pogrom, in which 49 Jews were murdered ...

CHISINAU (Reuters) -Vandals daubed swastikas and other Nazi symbols and damaged more than 50 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Moldova's capital, officials said on Thursday.

The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev (modern Chișinău, Moldova), then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April [O.S. 6 ...