Alfonse Pogrom

[4] Accounts and analyses of the event differ with regard to its goals and participants (varying as to the participation of Jewish Bund labor-party militants, Jewish workers, Christian workers,[5][6] and criminals;[7][8] as well as to the genesis of the event and the exact numbers of casualties).

[12] These activities were mostly dominated by the Jewish underworld, and their existence caused much tension and controversy within Warsaw's Polish-Jewish community.

[12] According to Laura Engelstein, the pimps were perceived by Bundists to be agents of the Okhrana (Russian Tsarist police).

[4][12] One version suggests that a sister or fiancée of a Bund activist was kidnapped and taken to a brothel, and he was wounded trying to rescue her.

Polonsky writes that the criminal underworld was substantially involved, and he notes that "only licensed brothels were affected".

[6] Tsarist police authorities allegedly attempted to orchestrate an anti-Jewish pogrom [3] (such accusations are part of the Bund narrative of the events[16]), but when the attempt failed, the Russian governor, Konstantin Maximovich [ru] ordered the military to suppress the riot.

[19] Leo Belmont [pl] wrote a poem, "Po pogromie" ("After the Pogrom"), about the incident.