Alexandrian riots

 

 

The Alexandrian riots, also called the Alexandrian pogroms, were riots or pogroms directed against 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;