"When the Irish, the Jews and the Italians first came over, they all went to boxing, " said Mitchell.
Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany during the war, when Jews were deported en masse from the Nazi-occupied Balkans to death camps such as Auschwitz.
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In the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah is followed by Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, when observant Jews ask forgiveness for the sins of the past year and recommit to improving the next.
And because we know, while we wish them the best of luck with their democracy movements, and would welcome the advent of a tolerant society in Egypt, we recognize that that tolerance will end when it comes to the Jews.
And when the Nazis rose to power, the Jews were homeless and powerless.
The rapidity with which most Soviet Jews ran for the exits when the borders were opened would strongly suggest (in fact it outright proves) that mother Russia was less than fulsome in its embrace of its Jewish minority and that Jews themselves fell ill-treated and abused.
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But he said his own treatment paled into insignificance when compared to Jews in the camp.
When they attempted militarily to prevent Israel from coming into existence and when Arab leaders said that the Jews had no right to a state in Palestine, this was interpreted in effect as haggling (though not generally by Israel's Jews, whom history conditioned to heed fatal threats).
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In 1492, when Spain expelled the country's Jews, a refugee brought the book to Italy.
He spoke of what he called historical, moral and theological problems raised by the Holocaust - when millions of Jews were killed by Nazi Germany.
He was with a group about to be sent to a concentration camp when he removed the yellow star that Jews had to wear and walked away.
But when Jews, threatened in the 1930s with Hitler's Final Solution for European Jewry needed most urgently support to find refuge, Britain imposed stringent restrictions on Jewish emigration into Palestine.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert displayed this reaction before an audience of American Jews when, as The New York Times reported, he was booed when he suggested that military action against Iran be a response of last resort.
In the context I know best modern Middle East history such was the case, for example, in 1929, when a few brave Arabs saved the lives of dozens of Jews from an Arab massacre in the biblical city of Hebron.
But today, American Jews find themselves helpless when a marginal group of anti-Zionist Jews demands - like the Messianic Jews of their day - communal funding and space for their anti-Israel activities.
Many are hoping that the impending trial of Maurice Papon, accused of ordering the arrest and deportation of 1, 560 Jews, including many children, when he was police supervisor in the Bordeaux area in 1942-44, will turn into a show trial of the whole of the Vichy administration.
Their silence becomes all the more enraging when placed against the massive support Israel receives from rank-and-file American Jews.
About 13, 000 Jews died in the ghetto when the Nazis reduced it to rubble.
Benn is onto something when he notes the differences between Israeli and American Jews.
Repeatedly in the past, even when that perception has not been warranted, the Arab nations have tried to drive the Jews into the sea.
But anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are not easy things to suppress when you despise the United States, Israel, and Jews in general as much as he and his Muslim Brotherhood party do.
But anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are not easy things to suppress when you despise the United States, Israel, and Jews in general as much as he and his Muslim Brotherhood (MB) party do.
But when the United States War Refugee Board approached him about traveling to Budapest to try and save the largest remaining concentration of Jews in Europe, Wallenberg answered that call.
He was allegedly a camp guard in 1944, when about 344, 000 Jews from Hungary were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers in occupied Poland.
As far as he is concerned, the Jews brought the violence on themselves last March when they responded to Haddad and Ram's treatment by holding a demonstration supporting Israel.
When polled recently by the American Jewish Committee, a majority of American Jews said they support Israel's peace efforts with the Palestinians and Arab states.
She praises it for offering a transit point for Soviet Jews when other countries held back for fear of attracting the unwelcome attention of pro-Palestinian groups.
When the government caved and began a press campaign and discriminatory measures against Jews, it was rewarded by Germany's becoming the second largest importer of Egyptian goods.
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