On June 1, 1906, the Jewish Bund attacked an Orthodox procession.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources agree that a shooting at an Orthodox procession in Białystok on June 1 (Old Style; June 14 New Style) triggered the 1906 pogrom, but they do not name the Bund as the attacker.
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… They're cleansing the area of these, you know, of the Gentiles, was was normal. The only time it gets called a pogrom is when the the Gentiles fought back. Um, I cite the June 1, 1906, the Jewish Bund, heavily armed, attacked a nationalist, uh, actually was an Orthodox procession, killing 25 people. And let me let me quote the Vilnius Gazette here from the Baltics, and I quoted that from Platonov, that same book of his. …
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Contradicts. Dubnow's history says the pistol shot at the June 1 church procession was discharged by an agent provocateur from the Black Hundreds, not by the Bund.[3]
Contradicts. The 1906 US ambassador's report attributes the procession shots to Jewish anarchists, a different group from the Bund, and gives the date as June 14 (New Style).[1]
Supports. Multiple sources place a shooting at an Orthodox procession in Białystok on June 1, 1906 (Old Style), which set off the pogrom; Dubnow and the Museum of Family History describe the shots fired at the procession.[3][4]
Context. The Bund is described as a self-defense and labor organization active in Białystok, and the YIVO Encyclopedia notes that attribution of responsibility for these pogroms is complicated by Jewish self-defense.[5][6]
Context. Kobrin's op-ed describes a pogrom after an attack on the Orthodox Church procession by Polish Christians, while giving the date as June 14, 1906 and an 88–89 Jewish death toll rather than the 25 deaths in the claim.[2]
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- 1Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part IIhistory.state.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 2Document2 - sites.asit.columbia.edusites.asit.columbia.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Full text of "History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from ...archive.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4mfh/pogroms/bialystokmuseumoffamilyhistory.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Pogroms - YIVO Encyclopediayivoencyclopedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Białystok pogrom - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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