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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…
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Moses Almosnino
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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Edward Serotta
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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date:
1988
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…
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Simon Gelberg
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(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1901
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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
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Marrakesh, French Protectorate in Morocco
(Morocco)
Date:
1940
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Moshe Rynecki
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1939
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The slow and green river that winds through
the blanched street of the Jewish Quarter
kept watch over your agony.
From my old table
I used to see him
approach your windows with
restless eyes. And as…
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César Tiempo
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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My grandfather, like so many others, came to Canada by steerage from Poland in 1900 and settled down not far from Main Street in what was to become a ghetto. Here, as in the real America, the…
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Mordecai Richler
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New York City, United States of America
(Canada)
Date:
1961
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Matteo Gucci
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1569–70
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Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…
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Israel Zangwill
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(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1892
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Jacob Epstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1902