The second Kishinev pogrom took place on October 19–20, 1905 in Kishinev (now

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), two and a half years after the first

Kishinev pogrom The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre 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 . During the pogrom, which began on Easter Day, ...

. It was part of the wave of pogroms that swept across the

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after tsar's

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in the wake of the abortive

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. 19 Jews were murdered and 56 wounded.Pogroms
from ''International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences''"Kishinev"
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Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe'' The pogrom started as a right-wing demonstration against tsar's Manifesto, which turned into an attack on the Jewish quarter. Referring to the article on Kishinev in ''

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'' The pogrom was resisted by Jewish self-defense groups, with partial success. Instrumental in organizing the self-defense was the Kishinev branch of Tze'irei Zion, who issued a circular calling Jewish youth to organize the resistance to violence."Zionism"
from the translation of יהודי קישינב (''Yehudei Kishinev'', "The Jews of Kishinev"), Tel-Aviv, 1950 Between 1902 and 1905 the number of Jews in Kishinev decreased from about 60,000 to 53,000 (about 12%) due to emigration.

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