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... that Sinan Reis, a Sephardi Jewish pirate and Barbary corsair whose family was expelled from Spain in 1492, helped Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa defeat the Spanish at the 1538 Battle of Preveza (pictured)?
... that two months after Baruch Ben Haim arrived in Brooklyn to serve as Assistant Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community, he was engaged to the Chief Rabbi's daughter?
... that most epic poems about the Babi Yar massacres were written by Russian and Ukrainian Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust?
... that Margaret Michaelis-Sachs took photos of the Jewish market in Kraków which "carry the weight of history, offering a visual trace of a way of life that was destroyed by fascism"?
... that Simeon Magruder Levy was in 1802 the first Jewish graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point?

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