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...HAPPY JEW-Nat J. Ferber-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The Marmelsteins lived in the ghetto of a small Galician town, but Papa Mayer worked away at his grocery, traded and saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer-Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius...
Through the squalid streets of Zlatshev, a small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed...
...medical insurance system of Cuba's mutual benefit clubs last week forced the National Medical Federation of Cuba to call a strike. The clubs, or centres?notably the Galician Centre and the Asturian Centre each with about 100,000 members ?are among Cuba's richest institutions. Tourists often mistake the ornate Asturian clubhouse near the new Capitol Building for President Machado's palace which is several blocks away...
Upon what authority Bishop Adam urged his claim to the Archbishopric is not well understood. While disclaiming Bolshevik sympathies, he, a Galician, evidently represents a Pan-Slavic party as opposed to a 100% Russian party...