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Bombing of Alliance Israélite Universelle school in Beirut
Arab nationalist extremists planted a bomb that collapsed the Alliance school building.
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- Extremist Arab nationalists
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Closure of Alliance Israélite Universelle schools
The government shut down the four Alliance schools in Aleppo.
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- Syrian government
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Steven J. Zipperstein
Steven J. Zipperstein (born 1950) is an American historian of Judaism and Jewish culture. The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, Zipperstein earned his B.A., M.A and Ph.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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- Unknown
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Supreme Court of Canada voids anti-Jewish land covenant (Wolfe case)
The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a lower-court ruling that had upheld a restrictive covenant barring Jews from buying a cottage at Beach O'Pines, lifting the barrier to Jewish ownership there.
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- Supreme Court of Canada
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The Displaced Persons Act is amended to remove restrictions to Jewish displaced persons.
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- Unknown
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Government halts Joint Distribution Committee activity in Romania
The Romanian government ordered an end to the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in the country.
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- Romanian government
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- Romania
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1950–1951 Baghdad bombings
Jewish targets were bombed in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. Two activists in the Iraqi Zionist underground were found guilty by an Iraqi court for a number of the bombings, and were sentenced to death.
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- Unknown
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Detention of Jews in Alexandria camps after 1948 war
When the Israeli War of Independence broke out, several Jews were placed in detention camps such as Abukir; most were freed before 1950.
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- Egyptian government
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- Alexandria, Egypt
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Discrimination against Jews in Soviet university admissions
In the last years of Stalin's rule, Jews seeking admission to Soviet universities faced discrimination amid the state's anti-Jewish policy. This was not a formally regulated percentage system.
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- Soviet government
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- Soviet Union (several countries)
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Yemenite Children Affair
Yemenite Children Affair: Alleged disappearance of children in 1950s Israel.
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- Unknown
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- Israel
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Antisemitic attacks on Alabama Jews in the 1950s and 1960s
A wave of antisemitic attacks struck Jewish institutions in Alabama, including the firebombing of a synagogue in Gadsden and an attempted bombing of a Birmingham temple.
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- Unknown
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- Alabama, United States
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Kristallnacht
The Nazi German persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, reached a first climax during Kristallnacht in 1938 and culminated in the Holocaust of European Jewry. The 1938 Evian Conference, the 1943 Bermuda Conference and other attempts failed to resolve the problem of Jewish refugees, a fact widely used in Nazi propaganda.
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- Nazi Germany
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- Germany
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Demolition of Jewish buildings in Mikulov under Communist rule
Apart from the Old Synagogue, the town's Jewish buildings were all demolished under the Communist regime.
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- Communist regime
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- Mikulov, Moravia, Czech Republic
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20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt
20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt: exodus of Europeans from Egypt.
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- Unknown
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- Egypt
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Deportation of 168 Jews to Curaçao
Deportation of 168 Jews to Curaçao: deportation of 168 Jews to Curaçao.
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- Unknown
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