Item # 725608
November 03, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 3, 1945
* The 1945 Cairo Pogrom
* The Balfour Day riots
* Anti-Jewish - Jews by Arabs
* Anti-Zionist demonstration
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "EGYPT ARABS RIOT AGAINST ZIONISTS; 10 KILLED, 350 HURT" with subheads. (see images) related map is on page 2.
Complete with all 26 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.
background: The anti-Zionist riots of November 2, 1945, represented a violent rupture in the social fabric of Egypt, as the 28th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration served as a catalyst for unprecedented mass unrest in Cairo and Alexandria. Orchestrated by nationalist and Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Young Egypt, the demonstrations quickly devolved from political protests into targeted pogroms; in Cairo, rioters devastated the Jewish quarter, looting hundreds of businesses and burning the historic Ashkenazi synagogue to the ground. Alexandria witnessed even more severe bloodshed, resulting in the deaths of five Jewish residents and a police officer, with hundreds more injured as the violence spilled over to target other non-Muslim minorities and foreign-owned properties. While King Farouk and the Egyptian government officially condemned the carnage to maintain international standing, the state’s inability—or reluctance—to suppress the mobs until significant damage had been done signaled a terrifying new era for the Jewish community. This event effectively shattered the long-standing perception of Jewish safety in Egypt, blurring the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism and initiating the first major wave of Jewish migration out of the country.
* The 1945 Cairo Pogrom
* The Balfour Day riots
* Anti-Jewish - Jews by Arabs
* Anti-Zionist demonstration
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "EGYPT ARABS RIOT AGAINST ZIONISTS; 10 KILLED, 350 HURT" with subheads. (see images) related map is on page 2.
Complete with all 26 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.
background: The anti-Zionist riots of November 2, 1945, represented a violent rupture in the social fabric of Egypt, as the 28th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration served as a catalyst for unprecedented mass unrest in Cairo and Alexandria. Orchestrated by nationalist and Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Young Egypt, the demonstrations quickly devolved from political protests into targeted pogroms; in Cairo, rioters devastated the Jewish quarter, looting hundreds of businesses and burning the historic Ashkenazi synagogue to the ground. Alexandria witnessed even more severe bloodshed, resulting in the deaths of five Jewish residents and a police officer, with hundreds more injured as the violence spilled over to target other non-Muslim minorities and foreign-owned properties. While King Farouk and the Egyptian government officially condemned the carnage to maintain international standing, the state’s inability—or reluctance—to suppress the mobs until significant damage had been done signaled a terrifying new era for the Jewish community. This event effectively shattered the long-standing perception of Jewish safety in Egypt, blurring the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism and initiating the first major wave of Jewish migration out of the country.
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