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...argue with a man who's been doing comix since the 1930s? His other book, an original graphic novel (a term he invented), "The Name of the Game," comes out in November from DC comics. It sounds like another of his patented tales of urban Jewish families learning to assimilate in the New World...
...both Jews and Muslims, but his children continue to fight over his grave. The ancient West Bank city of Hebron, where according to tradition the Biblical prophet is buried, has long been an epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In 1929, the massacre of 67 Jews destroyed its tiny historic Jewish community. But four decades, later Jewish settlers began moving into Hebron after its capture by Israel. In 1994, a lone Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a local mosque. The Palestinian Authority took control of 80 percent of the city in 1997, although a small settler presence remained...
...type Israel signed with its four Arab neighbors in 1949, to end its War of Independence. But it was considerably easier, a half century ago, for the newly independent states of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to temporarily give up on the idea of conquering the new Jewish State in their midst than it would be for any Palestinian leader today to sign a non-aggression pact with Israel while the occupation continued...
...second most famous landmark: the synagogue, set amid the blue-shuttered pepper warehouses in the neighborhood known as Jew Town. There, on the synagogue's floor, may be another clue to Zheng He's visits: Guangzhou-made porcelain tiles, several centuries old. The synagogue is the legacy of a Jewish presence in Kerala dating back to A.D. 70. But it's not much to look at, just an ordinary house on an ordinary street. Built in 1568, it now caters to a few score local Jews and thousands of tourists. The narrow lane leading to the synagogue is full...
...tiles. The author suggests they were presented to the Cochin Raja by the Chinese traders who were accompanied by Ma Huan, the treasure ship's chronicler, and an unnamed ambassador (probably Zheng He). The tiles, he claims, were meant for the Raja's palace, but some clever Jewish merchants spread the rumor that Chinese use cow's blood to make porcelain and the King, a devout Hindu, had to give them up - to the Jewish merchants...