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    Yom haShoah : pour ne pas oublier

    Yom haShoah : pour ne pas oublier

    Témoignages, essais, romans, poésies, écrits surgissant de l’horreur, posent tous la même question : le langage peut-il restituer l’indicible barbarie de ce qu’on nomme aujourd’hui un génocide ?

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    The last Jew of Essaouira and the exodus that changed Morocco

    The last Jew of Essaouira and the exodus that changed Morocco

    RN BY JOEY WATSON AND CLAUDIA TARANTO FOR EARSHOT

    In an antique shop in the seaside Moroccan town of Essaouira sits Joseph Sebag, a charming old man with a shy smile.

    He is all that remains of the city's once thriving Jewish community. But he remembers what it was like before the exodus.

    "There was no Jew that didn't have a Muslim friend, and there was no Muslim that didn't have a Jewish friend," Mr Sebag says.

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