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Updated: June 25, 2025
A little group of old Jews, all held in honour among their people Abraham Ohana, nicknamed Pigman, son of a former rabbi; Judah ben Lolo, an elder of his synagogue; and Reuben Maliki, keeper of the poor-box were seized and cast into the Kasbah for gross and base usury. At this the Jewish quarter was thrown into wild hubbub. The hand that was on their people was a daring and terrible one.
Then there were loud guffaws, and oaths, and cries like the cry of the hyena. Last of all, old Abraham Pigman handed over the people's heads a huge green Spanish umbrella to a negro farrier that walked within; and the black fellow, showing his white teeth in a wide grim, held it over Israel's head. Then from fifty rasping throats came mocking cries. "God bless our Lord!" "Saviour of his people!"
I heard Peggy Pugh say to Sally Pigman, 'Goodness knows, it's well Schultz's daughters is got them things round their necks, for it's the first time the young men crowded round them! "I saw immediately the danger of the case. We were a small community, and could not afford to be split up by feuds.
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