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Jewish Self-Defense League
Jewish Self-Defense League
Organization that protected Jewish lives and property during the pogrom.
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... The Jewish Self-Defense League played an impor-
tant role in saving Jews during those pogrom days. The
league was organized by the labor parties. It saved
thousands of Jewish lives and a great deal of their prop-
erty. Thanks to this defense league, several major Jew-
ish working-class sections of the city were spared
ruination. ...Connected nodes
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