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Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…
Contributor:
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
Places:
Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1917
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In 1391, Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet (known as Rivash), a respected rabbinic scholar and author of numerous responsa, suffered from the violent riots and mass conversions in Spain but then fled to…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
ca. 1870