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The Ottoman Cat Sanctuary of Aleppo
The Ancestry of Lloyd Alexander
The Drowning in Rozentova
The Menorah of Viborg
The Fate of Pets in the Holocaust
The Fair Countess of Strassoldo
The Year of Jewish Beauty Queens
The Man Who Barked
The Last Voyage of Castor
The Miracle Worker from Lomborg
The Starless Woman in Riga
The Children's Poet from Warsaw
The Day Norway Sank
The Half-Dame of Copenhagen
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The Ottoman Cat Sanctuary of Aleppo
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A small beacon of light in the battleground of Aleppo was the cat sanctuary of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel. An ambulance driver by occupation,...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016
The Ancestry of Lloyd Alexander
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May next year will mark a decade since the passing of Lloyd Chudley Alexander, the celebrated author of the Chronicles of Prydain - a wo...
Friday, January 2, 2015
The Drowning in Rozentova
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I discovered this tragic accident while reading a very old newspaper. In a rural area like this, some of the local elders may still remembe...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
The Menorah of Viborg
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It is truly an amusing coincidence that I should come across this story on Hanukkah. Yesterday, while looking through a postcard albu...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014
The Fate of Pets in the Holocaust
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While it may have been a tiny fraction of the suffering inflicted in the Second World War, the question of what fate befell Jewish own...
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