France is celebrating the 11th-century rabbi known as Rashi. Celebrations include a commemorative stamp, a medal being minted at the Treasury, scholarly conferences and the renaming of an esplanade in the city of Troyes, where Rashi lived from 1040 to 1105 and founded a school of Talmud study.
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