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Is The Holocaust Over-Emphasized?
Apr 24 2009, Marco Villa

In the past year there has been both a book by a former speaker of the Knesset and a documentary arguing that Jewish identity is too obsessed with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Avraham Burg, the former speaker of the Israeli parliament, writes it is..

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