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Ki·shi·nev

 (kĭsh′ə-nĕf′, -nôf′, kyĭ′shĭ-nyôf′)
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Kishinev

(Russian kiʃiˈnjɔf)
n
(Placename) the Russian name for Chişinǎu
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Ki•shi•nev

(ˈkɪʃ əˌnɛf, -ˌnɔf, -ˌnɒf)

n.
the Russian name of Chişinău.
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Noun1.Kishinev - the capital of Moldova
Moldavia, Moldova, Republic of Moldova - a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991
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While the "great" events in the history of anti-Semitismthe massacre in York in 1190, the Spanish expulsion of 1492, the Kishinev pogrom in 1903 and, above all, the Holocaustloom large in the Jewish imagination, it is the persistence of "casual," everyday anti-Semitism that reveals its deeper roots.
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