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Excerpt: Ribalow Prize-Winner ‘The Last Watchman of Old Cairo’
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Excerpt: Ribalow Prize-Winner ‘The Last Watchman of Old Cairo’
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Michael David Lukas
My father told me stories about the long line of al-Raqb men who had, for nearly a thousand years, served as watchmen of the Ibn Ezra Synagogue.