The history of the Jews in Bessarabia, a historical region in Eastern Europe, dates back hundreds of years.
Jewish man in Chișinău (1900)
Torah scrolls presented by the Jewish community of Chișinău to Nicholas II, 1914
The Chișinău Choral Synagogue, 1913.
Victims of pogrom in Chișinău, 1903
Kishinev pogrom
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The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April 1903. During the pogr
History of the Jews in Bessarabia
…with 16 Jewish schools and over 2,000 pupils in Chișinău alone. There were two massacres in Kishinev (modern Chișinău) in 1903 and 1905 known as the Kishinev pogroms. In 1903, a Christian Ukrainian boy, Mikhail Ribalenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubăsari, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Chișinău…
Bodies in the street
Burial of damaged Torah scrolls after the Kishinev pogrom
Herman S. Shapiro. "Kishinever shekhita, elegie" (Kishinev Massacre Elegy). Musical composition commemorating the Kishinev pogrom, 1904.