Word: blumenfeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews from all over the World met in Antwerp last week to launch an appeal for $10,000,000 in behalf of the Palestine Foundation Fund. Dr. Kurt Blumenfeld, Director of the Fund, urged a change in "Jewish methods of propaganda" to oppose Communism as well as Fascism. Treasurer Eliezer Kaplan of the Jewish Agency for Palestine complained: "Jews because of their indifference and failure to provide adequate funds are equally responsible with the British Government for the decline of Jewish immigration to Palestine...
Most generally approved of all the prizes was the award of the $200 Hallgarten Prize "for the best oil painting by a citizen under 35," to Maurice Blumenfeld for a gloomy Daumieresque canvas of three cadaverous men hunched over a table, bolting soup. Citizen Blumenfeld turned out to be a 17-year-old Brooklyn high-school graduate. Though born in France of Russian parents, he was technically eligible to receive the prize since his father has become a naturalized U. S. citizen...
...Last week the 80-year-old weekly Watertown (Wis.) Weltbitrger ceased publication. Famed German-language publication, it had been edited by Liberal Carl Schurz at one time and by Ralph Blumenfeld, now board chairman of the London Daily Express. Since 1930. the Weltburger had been published by National Weeklies, Inc. in Winona, Minn...