... Jews. Simply, he wished to push them out of the mainstream of Italian life, and, if possible, out of Italy altogether. To this end, his government facilitated the departure of native-born and foreign Jews who were in Italy at the time. None of these points in any way should be taken (as it sometimes has been) as exonerating Mussolini; they ... Ancona, Rabbi Elio Toaff, who was told of the deportation, advised his community to hide and not to come to Yom Kippur services. In Florence, Rabbi Nathan Cassuto, a physician and son of a renowned biblical scholar, went from house to house exhort...

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... 62). The "program" of an Auto would include on of the following about each person being sent to death: Case 3. Felix Nunes de Miranda, age 62, New Christian, business man, native of the town Almeyda in the Bishopric of Lamego and resident of the city of Bahia, convicted, lying, dissembling, inadequate confession, impenitent and relapse (Roth 303). One of the greatest ... Columbus wrote the Hebrew letters Bet Heh, which were used as a Jewish symbol for the blessing "With the help of G-d," a custom of Jews at the time, on letters to his son. These marks, however, were curiously left off l...

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... honor many of the same teachings, their holy books are incomplete, and were rendered useless in the eyes of Muslims with the revelation of the Quran which supercedes all other native scripture. They are tolerated, but encouraged to join the true faith, for they will be cast away from Allah on the Day of Judgement, and that is a worse pain than ... of the prophecies that must be fulfilled, not any, or some of them. The one historical reference that has come the closest was a Jew known as "Bar Kochba" or the "Son of the Star" who, by a brief revolt reclaimed Jerusalem and the Temple, but ...

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