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Jews of Arab lands

Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel appears behind the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital on September 28, 2011. (Photo/JTA-Joseph Eid-AFP-Getty Images)
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Why this Bay Area Libyan Jew is worried about her homeland’s Jewish artifacts

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten July 25, 2017March 19, 2018

Gina Waldman was forced to flee her native Libya in 1967 as anti-Jewish mobs took to the streets of Tripoli, burning down her father’s warehouse. Waldman, like thousands of other […]

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