On This Day in Jewish History: December 15, 1920

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On this day, 1920, Jewish-Tunisian author Albert Memmi was born in Tunis, Tunisia. Considered an outcast due to his Jewishness, Memmi was submerged in French culture and placed within a largely-Muslim population from a young age. He went on to reflect such individualistic values in his writing, which was composed of primarily memoirs and essays centered on human oppression, in addition to several notable fictional works.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/books/albert-memmi-a-jewish-arab-intellectual-dies-at-99.html