Word: antisemitisme
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Rising Tide. The league began in 1913 when some 15 members of B'nai B'rith, the Jewish service organization, gathered at the call of Chicago Lawyer Sigmund Livingston. They had concluded, as the league's charter states, that "for many years the Jewish and non-Jewish...
Song of Praise. The first movement is a scorching retelling of "Babi Yar,' Evtushenko's angry denunciation of Soviet antiSemitism. Into a flowing dirge, chanted in solo and choral recitation. Shosta kovich pours rafter-shaking eruptions of drums and orchestra, recapturing his old, uninhibited enthusiasm for color and...
Anti-Semitism's Pulse. From the American Jewish Committee came perhaps the strongest reply, which America agreed to print in this week's issue. In it, the A.J.C. particularly attacks America's suggestion of the "bargain" that Jews should strike, arguing that pluralism gives every minority the...
"Some of My Best Friends. . ." (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $4.50) is the title of a just-published study of U.S. antiSemitism, by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster, national director and general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (founded in 1913 to combat antiminority...
The magazine is Nikita Khrushchev's reply to persistent criticism of the Kremlin's ill-concealed antiSemitism. For years, the Soviet Premier argued that Russia's Jews were really not interested in Jewish culture, but the 1959 Soviet census destroyed his argument. Of 2,268,000 Russian...