In this episode we look at the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903, two days of looting, rape and murder directed at the Jewish community of an agricultural city in the western part of the Russian empire. The carnage of the even shocked the world and led to an outpouring of support for the victims, but also caused darker and more sinister ripples through world culture.

My primary source for this episode was "Pogroms: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" by Steven J. Zipperstein. For the intro I used the article "Spring-Heeled Jack: To Victorian Bugaboo from Suburban Ghost" published in "Fortean Studies No. 3" (1996)

Music in this episode is courtesy of musopen.org

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