Kishinev
Americannoun
noun
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Lieberman, who is sixty, was born in Kishinev, now in Moldova—the site of an infamous pogrom in 1903.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2019
Mr. Lieberman, 60, was born in Kishinev, now the capital of Moldova, and emigrated to Israel at 20.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2018
Pre-publication copies of books arrive regularly in the mail, and that’s how I discovered Steven Zipperstein’s “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History.”
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2018
The same is with Nistru and Chisinau to the opposite of Russian spelling Dniestr and Kishinev.
From Economist • Nov. 19, 2013
A similar school was opened in Kishinev by Stern, and in the early "forties" there was hardly a Jewish community of note without one or more of such Jewish public institutions.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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