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This sheet accompanies Isn't It Time for Rereading Exodus -- Episode 9: Interactions. Related free, downloadable booklet and links to the full paperback text are found at Rereading4Liberation.com. Subscribe to the podcast and JOIN DISCUSSION (Thinkific Platform). See also related sources, including several from Exodus and commentaries, on Coming Forth source sheet.
The details of our story suggest that [the Yisrael-ites] were scattered throughout [Mitzrayim], which must have led to many personal friendships; only a systematically encouraged hate propaganda was able to change this.
-- Benno Jacob, The Second Book of the Bible (Ktav, 1992), p.343
Here is Sefaria's bio for Benno Jacob
I revealed Myself (God declares) to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in My aspect that finds expression in the name Shaddai, and I made them fruitful and multiplied them and gave them children and children's children, but by the name YHWH ... in My character as expressed by this designation I was not known to them, that is, it was not given to them to recognize Me as One that fulfils His promises,...
...you shall tell them the good news of what I am about to do on their behalf....
...The liberation becomes the basis of the relationship between the Lord and [Yisrael]...
-- Umberto Cassuto. A Commentary on the Book of EXODUS. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1951, p.79-81
Background on Cassuto (Italy, 1883–1951)
Some links regarding Segregation in DC
Where segregation has changed in DC -- and where it has not Greater Greater Washington 2021
Restrictive Covenants to Racial Steering -- at Mapping Segregation DC
Opportunity Map for DC (created by students of Maret School several years back)
from the "Structural Racism Explainer" at Urban Institute