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A Visit to the Mellah
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…

Contributor:

Elias Canetti

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Date:

1968

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Economic life, Community, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
Jewish London
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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…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

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London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters, Journalism

Categories:

Reportage