Massacres of Jews during the Russo-Turkish Wars

In the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, massacres of Jews, who lived in what belongs to today's Romania, reportedly happened in every part of the Danubian Principalities.Paul Cernovodeanu, "Evreii în epoca fanariotă" ("Jews in the Phanariote Period"), in Magazin Istoric, March 1997. Both the Ottoman Turkish Janissaries and Imperial Russian Army were responsible. In one of the massacres in Galați in 1797, Jews were forced into the streets to be killed. Some of the bodies were dropped into the Danube. Jews who hid in a local synagogue were also burned alive. Meanwhile, Ottoman Kalmyk soldiers committed similar massacres against Jews in Bucharest in the Russo-Turkish War of 1806–1812.

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