Word: aviv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan were evacuated to nearby Jewish communities. All-Jewish Tel Aviv was ringed with barbed wire to keep out bloodthirsty Arabs. In terrorist murders and police fire, the Jewish dead last week reached 18; the Arab, twelve...
...studied nights, was eventually given a chance to perform on a program at a Tel-Aviv theatre. Her ambition was so strong that she proceeded to do endless research on the manners and music of all the nearby tribes. She gave her first performances in Europe in 1930. For the past six months she has been in Paris, giving repeated recitals. Her U. S. future has still to be decided. Many an offer was made to her before her debut last week. Refusing them all, she said: "I must first show what...
...week the world's only ship to fly the flag of Palestine was in Greek waters on her maiden trip from Haifa to Trieste when the Greek revolution enveloped her like a dark cloud. What chiefly worried the Jewish crew and captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation...
...strangest thing about Arnold Bernstein is that he operates equally well on either side of the Nazi v. Jew fence. While his Tel Aviv flies the red shield of Palestine on its Union Jack, his Red Star and Bernstein Line ships fly the black swastika of Germany. Only important Jewish shipping man left in Hitler's Reich, he enjoys government protection chiefly because of his distinguished War record, which included an important artillery command on the Western Front and the Iron Cross, first class. Soon after the War this Saxon-born son of a well-to-do shipping broker...
Last week Arnold Bernstein finally got ashore from the Tel Aviv, hopped a Paris express, turned up at the North Atlantic Passenger Conference. There the No. 1 independent was welcomed with open arms into the tight little autocracy which rules the North Atlantic. After the doors of the conference opened, it was announced that Member-elect Bernstein had agreed to up his rates $2.50 one-way, $5 round-trip for the Königstein, Ilsenstein and Gerolstein, charge a minimum of $115 one-way, $207 round-trip for his 16.000-ton German Red Star Liners Pennland and Westernland...