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4 days ago · The Jews found such haven in the Philippines, then a US-governed Commonwealth nation under President Manuel L. Quezon. Despite a strong internal opposition from politicians, Quezon advocated with the US State Department for the issuance of visas that eventualy benefited over 1,200 Jewish refugees.
5 days ago · President Manuel L. Quezon persisted in back-and-forth negotiations over the acceptance of Jewish refugees in the Philippines. Noah Benjamin Ehrlich, the estranged son of President Ferdinand Marcos, had access to insider information on top of academic citations, revealing a decade’s worth of never-before scrutinized discussions ...
3 days ago · Quezon's Game - It tells the story of Philippine President Manuel Quezon, future U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and several other notable figures set out to rescue Jewish refugees from the ghettos of Germany and Austria.
1 day ago · Unfortunately, that proved a fleeting haven: in 1496, King Manuel I ordered the forced conversion of all Jews and the seizure of their property. As converts, the exiles were now fully subject to the Inquisition – and within a few decades, the auto-da-fés, in which alleged “Judaizers” were burned alive, were blazing.
3 days ago · When Emilio Aguinaldo ran for President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935, his opponent Manuel L. Quezon (the eventual victor) invoked the memory of Bonifacio against him, the bones being the result of Bonifacio's execution by the judiciary branch of the revolutionary government headed by Aguinaldo.
3 days ago · The two central events of 20th-century Jewish history were the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel. The former was the great tragedy of the Jewish people, while the latter was the light of a rebirth, which promised political, cultural, and economic independence.
3 days ago · In the Shema—often regarded as the Jewish confession of faith, or creed—the biblical material and accompanying benedictions are arranged to provide a statement about God’s relationship with the world and Israel (the Jewish people), as well as about Israel’s obligations toward and response to God.
