Copyright

Yankev Leshchinsky

Published On

2024-09-16

Page Range

pp. 83–88

Language

  • English
  • Yiddish

Print Length

6 pages

3. The Minsk-Mazovyetsk pogrom

  • Yankev Leshchinsky (author)
  • Robert Brym (translator)
  • Eli Jany (translator)
Chapter of: The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37(pp. 83–88)
Ethnic tensions had been growing in Minsk-Mazovyetsk since 1 May 1936, when Poles killed a Jew and severely wounded several others. One of the Polish assailants was stabbed, and members of the Narodowa Demokracja party began agitating for revenge. On 1 June a deranged Jew shot and killed a Polish army sergeant, sparking one of the four major Polish pogroms in the period 1935–37. Leshchinsky describes the rampage in detail. Beginning on 4 June, hundreds of Jewish homes and businesses were vandalized, looted, and set on fire. Twenty-five Jews were severely wounded and many more lightly wounded. Attacks on Jews subsequently spread across the country. 20 June 1936.

Contributors

Yankev Leshchinsky

(author)

Robert Brym

(translator)
SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus at University of Toronto
Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto
https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Robert Brym, FRSC, is SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and an Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest works include Robert Brym and Randal Schnoor, eds, The Ever-Dying People? Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023) and “Jews and Israel 2024: Canadian Attitudes, Jewish Perceptions,” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études Juives Canadiennes (38: 2024), 6–89. For downloads of Brym’s published work, visit https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Eli Jany

(translator)
PhD student at University of Toronto

Eli Jany is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has translated poems by Sarah Reisen (In geveb, 12 May 2020, https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/three-poems-reisen) and, with Robert Brym, co-translated volume 1 of The Last Years of Polish Jewry and “Jewish Economic Life in Yiddish Literature: Yitskhok Ber Levinzon and Yisroel Aksenfeld,” East European Jewish Affairs (53, 1: 2024), both by Yankev Leshchinsky.