The killings of Jews during the Khmelnytsky Uprising involved a couple of thousand people.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim that Jewish killings in the Khmelnytsky Uprising involved only a couple of thousand people is contradicted by the scholarly estimates in the sources, which put Jewish deaths at roughly 18,000-20,000 (Stampfer) or 6,000-14,000 (Pelenski), and 40,000-50,000 across all parties. The extraction is faithful to the post, which calls the killings exaggerated and gives the same figure.
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… They were engaged in short term profiteering, forgetting about what the long-term results of usury and dishonest trading practices are going to lead to. And Kimonitsky is what it led to, one of the worst examples of this, and they had an excellent case. Now, the killings of the Jews in that revolution have been exaggerated, I think. Now it's a couple of thousand, usually in the cities, particularly obnoxious ones, but that was only after their Polish bodyguards were overcome, and Kim Linsky couldn't control that if he wanted to. And they learn nothing, because even after that, the same practices continued, but at least with some kind of an independent Kosovar state. …
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Contradicts. Stampfer's 2003 study, the most detailed treatment of Jewish casualties, concludes 18,000-20,000 Jews were killed out of a population of 40,000, roughly ten times the claimed figure.[1][2][3]
Contradicts. Pelenski's modern estimate of 6,000-14,000 and the Wikipedia estimate of several thousand to 20,000 Jews killed by Cossacks in 1648 both sit well above a couple of thousand, and the combined total across all parties is estimated at 40,000-50,000.[3][4][5]
Contradicts. Even the lowest local figures in the sources, such as about 3,000-6,000 killed at Nemyriv and about 1,500 at Tulczyn, show that the city-level killings alone reached or exceeded the claimed total, so the claim's 'usually in the cities' framing does not reduce the figure to a couple of thousand.[3]
Context. Historians do revise the older figures of 100,000 or more downward, and the sources note that some Jewish deaths came from disease and from Tatar or Polish forces, so the scholarly range is genuinely lower than traditional accounts. No source, however, puts the total near two thousand.[1][2][6]
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- 1What Actually Happened to the Jews of Ukraine in 1648?home.uncg.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Khmelnytsky Uprising - Rosen School of Hebrewrosenhebrewschool.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 3The Khmelnytsky massacres · The Jewish Diasporathejewishdiaspora.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Khmelnytsky pogroms - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Khmelnytsky pogroms - Wikiwandwikiwand.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6[PDF] Khmelnytsky Uprisingpeople.math.carleton.ca · not rated · cited for: context
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