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June 14, 2022

The Mysterious German of the Galilee

Erich Gunther Deutecom, his temple, and his fate.

The Israeli town of Nahariya, located on the northern part of the Mediterranean coast, was founded by German Jews in the 1930s, and in the 1960s immigrants from Germany and their children still made up the better part of the population. But Erich Gunther Deutecom, who preferred to go by Gidon, wasn’t quite like the others. Matti Friedman attempts to reconstruct his story:

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