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Interview series: Charles Dahan, Arabic speaking Amsterdam Jew, "The children outside the synagogue sang 'Here come the Jews, death to the Jews, we will get them." Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Charles Dahan “One Yom Kippur, I walked out of the beautiful Amsterdam Portuguese synagogue together with a law professor. In front of the nearby Jewish Historical Museum, some Moroccan boys were singing in Arabic with a nice melody. The professor said, “Look at those kids.” He remarked on how pleasant their singing was. “I said, ‘You don’t know what they’re singing! The words are ‘Here come the Jews, Death to the...