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 * ... that Sinan Reis, a Sephardi Jewish pirate and Barbary corsair whose family was expelled from Spain in 1492, helped Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa defeat the Spanish at the 1538 Battle of Preveza (pictured)?
 * ... that two months after Baruch Ben Haim arrived in Brooklyn to serve as Assistant Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community, he was engaged to the Chief Rabbi's daughter?
 * ... that most epic poems about the Babi Yar massacres were written by Russian and Ukrainian Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust?
 * ... that Margaret Michaelis-Sachs took photos of the Jewish market in Kraków which "carry the weight of history, offering a visual trace of a way of life that was destroyed by fascism"?
 * ... that Simeon Magruder Levy was in 1802 the first Jewish graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point?