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This appraisal of the west has remained Toynbee’s considered judgment. “In my eyes,” he states in the last volume of A Study of History, published in 1961, “the west is a…
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Elie Kedourie
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1970
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The Jews of Tunis have not been confined to the hara for a long time now. Since the end of the last century, those acquiring a degree of ease have abandoned it and…
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Paul Sebag
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1959
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Among the Jews of Europe, acute feelings of difference always fade with the passage of time. The school, the army, and politics have a unifying force; integration comes about through cultural channels…
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Marcel Bénabou
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1964
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Among the diverse races of Algeria, the Jewish population merits special attention.
At first glance, one sees a mass of people who comprise approximately one-fifth of the total civilian population…
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Jacques-Isaac Altaras and Joseph Cohen
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Marseille, Kingdom of France
(Marseille, France)
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1842
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I will describe only a little of the suffering undergone by the exiles, some of whom entered the kingdom of Fez by the grace of the great king, one of the righteous men of the nations of the world…
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Abraham Ardutiel
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Fez, Kingdom of Morocco
(Fes, Morocco)
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1510
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Gilad Ophir
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1997
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All of a sudden the wicket opened and a lot of people entered all at once in a jostling mass, and Daddy was there too, clutching the milk pan in one hand and the iron bar in the other. They had…
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S. Yizhar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1992
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My mother often sent me shopping to 18th Avenue (not a far distance, but for a kid it was unfamiliar territory), the district of Middle Eastern groceries, whose shopkeepers were…
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Jack Marshall
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El Cerrito, United States of America
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2005
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Stones are stones.
Why did you say stones?
Why did you throw stones?
Why are you standing here, child?
What’s got into you to throw stones at soldiers?
Why aren’t you afraid?
Why aren’t you worried…
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Dahlia Ravikovitch
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Berkeley, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1992
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What follows is an account of how the daily newspapers in Hungary reported the Israeli response to one of the “high points” of the new Intifada, a series of Palestinian attacks that…
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János Gadó
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Budapest, Hungary
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2002