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Dr. Michal Rachel Suissa

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Description:80 years after the 1929 massacre, Hebron lives!The book Hebron: Rebirth from Ruins was released in 2009 and coincided with the 80th anniversary of the Hebron massacre that claimed 69 lives. The book is a collection of articles edited by Dr. Michal Rachel Suissa, an associate professor in medicinal chemistry at University College in Oslo. Born in Morocco and raised in Israel, Dr. Suissa holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and serves as CEO of the Norwegian-based Center for Combating Anti-Semitism. The book features historical articles by Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and the non-Jewish Zionist advocate Pierre Van Paasen, who was a personal witness to the 1929 massacre. It also features contemporary articles from Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, attorney Eliakim Haetzni, and others.The following is Dr. Suissa's introduction to the book: No Jewish State Without Hebron On the 8th of August this year we marked the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the “Tarpat Pogroms,” committed by the Arabs of Eretz Yisrael against their Jewish neighbors. The pogroms struck Jewish communities in twelve cities throughout Israel, including Jerusalem, Safed and Hebron – where the Jewish community suffered most severely, scores being killed and the remainder exiled. The year was 1929, or 5689 according to the Jewish calendar (“Tarpat” in a standard Hebrew acronym), and the day was the Jewish holy day, the Sabbath, the 18th of Av. This year is only the second time that the Jewish State of Israel declared the day of the Tarpat massacre as an offcial Memorial Day. The memorial ceremony is scheduled to be held in Hebron on September 7th 2009, 18 Elul 5769.On the 18th of Av eighty years ago, an Eastern European-style pogrom was carried out by the Arabs of Hebron, who for generations had lived in relative peace with the Jews. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Arabs fell upon their Jewish neighbors, pillaging, raping and murdering. Only a few Hebron Arabs heroically protected the Jews. During this pogrom, Jews whose ancestors had lived in Hebron for generations, as well as newly arrived fugitives from the pogroms of Eastern Europe, were murdered. The architect of the Arab pogroms in British Mandatory Palestine between 1922 and 1936 was the so-called Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. He later became an admirer and ally of Hitler, met with him during World War II, and provided the Nazis with considerable Muslim political support and material assistance in the destruction of European Jews during the Holocaust. To that end, he promoted the creation of Muslim SS units in Bosnia, financed and equipped by the German Nazi government and employed to exterminate Balkan Jewry.Al-Husseini’s attempt to eliminate the Jewish community of Eretz Yisrael predated Hitler’s Holocaust in Europe. From the 1920's on, Husseini created a clandestine network of Arab terrorist groups throughout Mandatory Palestine and incited them to commit terrorist attacks and pogroms. The massacre in Hebron represents his most gruesome and effective achievement. British authorities, who had appointed the Mufti to his position, did little to prevent his terrorist activities, acting only when they, too, became his targets. In 1929, the British took extraordinary measures to cover up the Hebron massacre. It was Israel’s ﬁrst Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, of blessed memory, who made the pogroms known to the world.In August 1929, Hebron, the most ancient of Jewish cities, became thoroughly “cleansed” of Jews, ending 3,800 years of continuous Jewish presence in the city. In this, Hebron appeared to share the fate of the great majority of Jewish communities on the Eurasian continent, some of them quite ancient. The Holocaust burnt away the thriving Jewish civilization of Christian Europe and it has never been restored. Little but ashes remain.This, however, was not Hebron’s fate. Though subject to its own miniature Holocaust in Tarpat, the Jewish community in Hebron was restored following the liberation of the city in the 1967 war. Though Jewish civilization was burnt out of Europe it was restored, not in Europe but in the land of Israel, which God promised to Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob and their descendants forever. Hebron was the place where that promise was first realized. When, in God’s good time, the time came for the Jewish community in Hebron to be restored, it came to life not in some distant place but in its own native home, where it had dwelt till 1929.The fate of the great Yeshiva (Talmudic academy) of Slobodka, whose history is recorded in these pages, is symbolic. One of the leading centers of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe, Slobodka divided in 1924. Half the Yeshiva remained in its traditional home on the outskirts of Vilna, Lithuania, and half of its leading scholars and students came in that year to Hebron. Both halves of the distinguished Yes...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hebron: Rebirth from Ruins. 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Description: 80 years after the 1929 massacre, Hebron lives!The book Hebron: Rebirth from Ruins was released in 2009 and coincided with the 80th anniversary of the Hebron massacre that claimed 69 lives. The book is a collection of articles edited by Dr. Michal Rachel Suissa, an associate professor in medicinal chemistry at University College in Oslo. Born in Morocco and raised in Israel, Dr. Suissa holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and serves as CEO of the Norwegian-based Center for Combating Anti-Semitism. The book features historical articles by Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and the non-Jewish Zionist advocate Pierre Van Paasen, who was a personal witness to the 1929 massacre. It also features contemporary articles from Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, attorney Eliakim Haetzni, and others.The following is Dr. Suissa's introduction to the book: No Jewish State Without Hebron On the 8th of August this year we marked the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the “Tarpat Pogroms,” committed by the Arabs of Eretz Yisrael against their Jewish neighbors. The pogroms struck Jewish communities in twelve cities throughout Israel, including Jerusalem, Safed and Hebron – where the Jewish community suffered most severely, scores being killed and the remainder exiled. The year was 1929, or 5689 according to the Jewish calendar (“Tarpat” in a standard Hebrew acronym), and the day was the Jewish holy day, the Sabbath, the 18th of Av. This year is only the second time that the Jewish State of Israel declared the day of the Tarpat massacre as an offcial Memorial Day. The memorial ceremony is scheduled to be held in Hebron on September 7th 2009, 18 Elul 5769.On the 18th of Av eighty years ago, an Eastern European-style pogrom was carried out by the Arabs of Hebron, who for generations had lived in relative peace with the Jews. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Arabs fell upon their Jewish neighbors, pillaging, raping and murdering. Only a few Hebron Arabs heroically protected the Jews. During this pogrom, Jews whose ancestors had lived in Hebron for generations, as well as newly arrived fugitives from the pogroms of Eastern Europe, were murdered. The architect of the Arab pogroms in British Mandatory Palestine between 1922 and 1936 was the so-called Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. He later became an admirer and ally of Hitler, met with him during World War II, and provided the Nazis with considerable Muslim political support and material assistance in the destruction of European Jews during the Holocaust. To that end, he promoted the creation of Muslim SS units in Bosnia, financed and equipped by the German Nazi government and employed to exterminate Balkan Jewry.Al-Husseini’s attempt to eliminate the Jewish community of Eretz Yisrael predated Hitler’s Holocaust in Europe. From the 1920's on, Husseini created a clandestine network of Arab terrorist groups throughout Mandatory Palestine and incited them to commit terrorist attacks and pogroms. The massacre in Hebron represents his most gruesome and effective achievement. British authorities, who had appointed the Mufti to his position, did little to prevent his terrorist activities, acting only when they, too, became his targets. In 1929, the British took extraordinary measures to cover up the Hebron massacre. It was Israel’s ﬁrst Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, of blessed memory, who made the pogroms known to the world.In August 1929, Hebron, the most ancient of Jewish cities, became thoroughly “cleansed” of Jews, ending 3,800 years of continuous Jewish presence in the city. In this, Hebron appeared to share the fate of the great majority of Jewish communities on the Eurasian continent, some of them quite ancient. The Holocaust burnt away the thriving Jewish civilization of Christian Europe and it has never been restored. Little but ashes remain.This, however, was not Hebron’s fate. Though subject to its own miniature Holocaust in Tarpat, the Jewish community in Hebron was restored following the liberation of the city in the 1967 war. Though Jewish civilization was burnt out of Europe it was restored, not in Europe but in the land of Israel, which God promised to Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob and their descendants forever. Hebron was the place where that promise was first realized. When, in God’s good time, the time came for the Jewish community in Hebron to be restored, it came to life not in some distant place but in its own native home, where it had dwelt till 1929.The fate of the great Yeshiva (Talmudic academy) of Slobodka, whose history is recorded in these pages, is symbolic. One of the leading centers of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe, Slobodka divided in 1924. Half the Yeshiva remained in its traditional home on the outskirts of Vilna, Lithuania, and half of its leading scholars and students came in that year to Hebron. Both halves of the distinguished Yes...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hebron: Rebirth from Ruins. 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