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European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

Daniel Barenboim

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Daniel Barenboim
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 15
Conductor
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