Word: aryanized
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...live" was just about the only legacy a Jewish parent in Hitler's Europe could offer his daughter or son. To go alone into a world of tightening snares was a little easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard...
...turns up in Austria as Katarina Leszczyszyn, a Ukrainian D.P., peasant-merry and eager for work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery of Eva's false documents, and so she breaks out of the snug roundhouse and into an office job at a nearby munitions plant...
...ancient Aryan invaders of India found that from the fermented juice of a vine (probably Asdepias acida) they could get a drink that made them feel happy, courageous and of superhuman strength. They called it "soma." It was so potent that it gained the status of a deity (the Rigveda is repetitive with praises of the divine potion). That was about 3,500 years...
...Aryan Businessman. The Nazis let him out again and, back in his old job, Joseph Joanovici became "a state within a state." His payroll included Vichy officials, Gestapo agents, profiteers, speculators, fences, gangsters. He once explained the niceties of his profession: "I had lunch with the Vichy official whose job it was to see that all businesses were run by Aryans. He noticed I spoke with an accent and asked me where I was born. I told him I would like to give him money regularly, as a contribution to the Red Cross...
...Nazi, the Shah was using the word "Aryan" in its true ethnic sense, i.e., to refer to the Indo-Iranian peoples who 4,000 years ago occupied the Persian plateau and conquered most of India...