Word: berend
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...down. But it endured, changed its name to honor the Dutch schoolgirl-diarist murdered by the Nazis, and is now jammed to capacity with 200 students who get lessons in Hebrew, Jewish history and Bible study as well as regular subjects. They came to Anne Frank, says director Rozsa Berend, ``because they wanted to be Jewish...
...officials. Having survived the war, many Jews throughout Eastern Europe came to a terrible conclusion: whatever the regime, it was best not to be Jewish at all. ``If they spit at you long enough, you feel like you must really be guilty of something,'' says Anne Frank school director Berend. ``Most of the Jews of my generation went through that psychological misery...
...current of fear and pessimism lurks beneath the surface. Anti-Semitism and nationalism stir memories of pogroms past. ``It is still possible to be frightened,'' says Alla Gerber, a Jewish member of the Russian parliament. ``There is a feeling that we are guests who should leave on time.'' Berend, in Budapest, says there have been anti- Semitic overtones in recent election campaigns, such as the word zsido (Jew) scrawled on posters of the Liberal Democrats. ``Things seem good now,'' she says, ``but no one knows what will happen if the economy keeps going down and people start clamoring...
...Ivan Berend, a former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes Soros as a "man on a mission," an heir to the powerful East European tradition of intellectuals guiding a political transformation. "He has become consumed with making a difference," says Berend, former head of the Soros Foundation in Hungary...
...think Liem fired him [in violation of]free speech, said Anna Fateeva-Berend '92-93. "Ifhe fired him it is because he is not considerateenough and [in that] he did the right thing...