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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, Second French Empire
(Lyon, France)
Date:
1863–1864
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Édouard Moyse
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Paris, Second French Empire
(Paris, France)
Date:
1867
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Work, tradesmen, shops, the town is there
with old maids polished down by emptiness
on haberdashers’ threshold where the antique sun
brushes off jewels dusty with being looked at.
Dressed up for…
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Benjamin Fondane
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1937
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1870
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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
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Aleksander Hertz
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Paris, Polish People’s Republic
(Poland)
Date:
1961
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We learn upon waking that Admiral Esteva was brutally kidnapped during the night by some Germans who apparently forced him onto his plane.
A friend attached to Civil Defense, who was…
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Robert Borgel
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(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1943
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Carpentras, Kingdom of France
(Carpentras, France)
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1741–1744
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The use of the notion of “community” to define French Judaism is not self-evident. On the one hand, if “community” renders the medieval kahal, the concept has a long history and has engendered any…
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Shmuel Trigano
Places:
Oxford, United Kingdom
(Nanterre, France)
Date:
1994
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Wenzel Seidan
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Paris, Second French Empire
(Paris, France)
Date:
1860
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September 7, 1912. The French enter Marrakesh. Marching through the Djema el Fna Square, surrounded by his general staff, Colonel Mangin is surprised to hear, amid the discordant noises of the crowd…
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José Bénech
Places:
Marrakesh, French Protectorate in Morocco
(Morocco)
Date:
1940