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2009-05-16 Africa North
La Ghriba Jewish pilgrimage attracts thousands to Tunisian island of Djerba
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Posted by Pappy 2009-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Uh, uh, ALL THOSE DJERBIN' GERBILS???

Gut nuthin.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-05-16 02:01||   2009-05-16 02:01|| Front Page Top

#2 I have visited this synagogue. It's very very beautiful.

Actually Jewish presence on Djerba is much older than 500 years. Jews have settled on Djerba for 2500 years, after the destruction of the First Temple.

But of course after 1492 lots of Sephardis settled there, too.
Posted by European Conservative 2009-05-16 15:32||   2009-05-16 15:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, European Conservative. One of the things I love about Rantburg is the opportunity to learn things I didn't even know I didn't know. :-D
Posted by trailing wife 2009-05-16 15:49||   2009-05-16 15:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Another thing you might not know is that Muslims on Djerba protected Jews against the occupying Afrika Korps in 1942
Posted by European Conservative 2009-05-16 16:04||   2009-05-16 16:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Another thing I did not know. Rather important, too: not just for historical perspective, but to offset the vicious hate spewing from elsewhere.
Posted by trailing wife 2009-05-16 17:04||   2009-05-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

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