Word: baksheesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish Jew, who sat silently leaning against a building in the sun begging for baksheesh...