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I have just spent a few days in Tunis.
My pleasure increases each time I return to that city and its inhabitants and experience the liveliness of the Avenue Jules-Ferry, and above all, the free and…
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Jacques Lazarus
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Algiers, Algeria
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1948
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Her bitter soul is anguished, because of her ailing wound.
The city one teeming with people is desolate, the Holy City that she had inherited.
For the glorious, sweet land, tears descend like a…
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Michael Müllner, Netanel Crescas
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First Half of the 17th Century
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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Caspar Birckenholtz, Judah Alkaletz
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Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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I had learned of Louise’s suicide upon my return to Blida, my hometown. Spring had just filled the streets with the insolent beauty of those impassive young women. Violent yet secretive, as in Spain…
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Jean Daniel
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1953
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The Hakham Rabbi Abraham Monson, may God protect him, was a resident of Tétouan, where he was born and raised among his siblings and relatives. When he reached the appropriate age he married a woman…
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Judah ‘Ayyash
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Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1737
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Information juive is back. For nearly fourteen years it was, under the aegis of the Jewish Algerian Committee for Social Studies, the voice of a community of almost 150,000 souls in Algeria; it…
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Jacques Lazarus
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1963
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Algiers, French Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
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ca. 1870
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On Thursday, the twentieth day of the month of Ziv, which is Iyyar, the government announced the capture of Berlin, the city of blood, the capital of the cruel German nation, may their name be blotted…
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Joseph Messas
Places:
Tlemcen, French Algeria
(Tlemcen, Algeria)
Date:
1945
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An Explanation of the Plot of this Book
Naʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…
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Abraham Daninos
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Algiers, French Algeria
(Algiers, Algeria)
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1847
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Oran, French Algeria
(Oran, Algeria)
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1847