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Word: ebraica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more anti-Semitic by the week. He graduated as a Dottore in Architettura in 1940; and on his diploma, awarded in the name of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, King of Albania and (thanks to Mussolini and his bombers) Emperor of Ethiopia, was written "Steinberg Saul... di razza Ebraica "(of the Jewish race). "It was some kind of safeguard for the future, meaning that although I was a dottore I could be boycotted from practicing, since I am a Jew. The beauty for me is that this diploma was given by the King; but he is no longer King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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