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Today it is possible for us to observe the process of Hellenization in individual features only. But these features are sufficiently significant to enable…
This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…
Ashkenaz, a descendant of the sons of Noah, grandson of Japheth, son of Gomer (Genesis 10:3).
It was in a rather ancient period in the history of the diaspora that the term Ashkenazim, or descendants…
The French presence in North Africa completely disrupted the pattern of coexistence between the Jewish and Moslem communities that had existed for over a thousand years…
Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky is without question the most forceful of recent novels written about the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe. There has been rare critical unanimity in this respect. To find…
At last you admit that Israel, caught up in the wave of technical progress, is becoming an industrial society “like the others.” You find it acceptable that the Jews, transformed in the…
“If the majority of Jews in Berber territory speak Arabic as their native language and use Spanish when doing business, their main concern is that Hebrew be the…
Rue Sainte-Catherine, people turned as we passed. Probably because of my father’s purple suit, his Kentucky green shirt and the same old shoes with the astrakhan spats. I fondly…
Resolved, by the French deputies professing the religion of Moses, that the following Declaration shall precede the answers returned to the questions proposed by the Commissioners of His…
The Jews are everywhere, in the old world and in the new. They can be found in Jamaica, in New England, in Washington’s America as well as in Bolívar’s, and even in Austral lands. If this people were…