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So shattering were the effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, any particular one historian remarked that it was "nothing at all less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself." In three times of assault, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned homes and stores were ransacked and destroyed. Recounted in lurid depth by newspapers throughout the , the burkha, and protected sensationally by America's Hearst press, the pre-Easter episodes seized the creativity of an international open public, quickly becoming the prototype for what would become known as a "pogrom", and providing the impetus for efforts as assorted as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the NAACP. Using new proof culled from Russia, Israel, and Europe, distinguished historian Steven J. Zipperstein's wide-ranging reserve brings historical insight and clarity to a much-misunderstood event that could achieve this much to convert 20th-century Jewish life and beyond.
