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On Ignorance, Respect, and Suspicion: Current Japanese Attitudes towards Jews

1997, Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism (no. 11). Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University

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