By Alexandria pogroms modern scholars refer to the persecution of Jews in 38 AD in Roman Alexandria, Egypt. The sole source is Philo of Alexandria, himself a Jew, who witnessed the riots and afterwards led the Jewish delegation to the Roman emperor Caligula, that requested the reestablishment of legal Jewish residence in Alexandria.

[edit] See also

• Pogrom
• Jewish–Roman wars
• History of the Jews in Egypt

[edit] References

Antisemitism: a historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution, Volume 1 By Richard S. Levy Page 9 ISBN 1851094393;

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