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October 7, 2016

The Jews of Corsica Get a New Synagogue

A frequent refuge from persecution.

During World War II, thousands of Jews fled to the island of Corsica from mainland France. The local Gentiles, famously tight-lipped, refused to hand them over the Vichy authorities. More recently, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary has set up a synagogue in the capital city of Ajaccio. Shmuel Loebenstein describes the island’s Jewish history:

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