René Cassin
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René Samuel Cassin was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Memorial to Cassin in Forbach, France
René Cassin with the French National Committee in London.
Sephardic Jews
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Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsula Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsul
René Cassin
…Prize in 1968. The same year, he was awarded one of the UN General Assembly's Human Rights Prizes. Cassin was born in Bayonne on 5 October 1887, to a Sephardi Jewish family. He grew up in Nice, where he attended the Lycée Masséna, and graduated with a bachelor's degree at 17. At the University of Provence he…
Sephardic Jewish festival in Tétouan, Morocco, Alfred Dehodencq, 1865, Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History
Statue of Maimonides in Córdoba
Observing the Havdalah ritual, 14th-century Spain
Windows and decorative reliefs of the Synagogue of El Tránsito, Toledo, constructed circa 1350.