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I am beginning to get used to the years of war. We seem to struggle through the same journey from first of January to first of January, in a nightmare that is itself beginning…
Contributor:
Mihail Sebastian
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1943
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May the Almighty make His vaporous dew fall, for the benefit of His people and His servants, and may He, in His mercy, restore the souls to the deceased. Let him who understands hear, and let him who…
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Sa‘id Tsa‘di
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Sanaʽa, Qasimid State (Sanaa, Yemen)
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ca. 1720
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It was in the year 5457, which is the year 1109 in their calendar [1697 CE], in the month of Tevet, when the chill and the cold began and the water of the great river Ozo Sway [the Dnieper…
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David Leḥno
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Karasubazar, Crimean Khanate (Bilohirsk, Ukraine)
Date:
First Quarter of the 18th Century
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In the early days of November 1942 (on November 14th) the German army conquered Tunisia with the aim of repelling the Allied Armies (the English and American) in Morocco, Algeria, and western Tunisia…
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Isaac ben Jacob Mamo
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Nabeul, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunisia)
Date:
1942–1943
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From May through August 1541, the forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to the city of Buda (present day Budapest, Hungary) and captured it, ushering in 150 years of Ottoman rule. This illustration…
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Artist Unknown
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Buda, Holy Roman Empire (Buda, Hungary)
Date:
1541
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During the period between the two wars, the relations between Jews and Muslims progressively altered. One can assign several causes to this unfortunate evolution.
One is the acceleration…
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Raymond Bénichou
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1957