Alexandria pogroms

By Alexandria pogroms modern scholars refer to the persecution of Jews in 38 CE 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.

See also

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

References

Antisemitism: a historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution, Volume 1 By Richard S. Levy Page 9 ISBN 1-85109-439-3;