Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands (Part IV)

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One of the émigrés from Crete the 18^th century who stood out was Abraham ben Sabbatai ha-Kohen, who was a doctor, philosophical author, and poet. At the end of the 19^th century the Jews of Zante mostly departed, some of them to Corfu, and the census of 1920 showed about 175 Jews on the island.

Ezra James Nollet is a retired U.S. government chemist living in Poland where he is officer of the local synagogue in Legnica. Before the Deluge appears the last week of each month.