Word: gessner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Gessner, novelist, poet and screen writer, speaker Sunday at Ford Hall Forum, has selected for his topic the title of his widely sold book, "Some of My Best Friends Are Jews...
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWS- Robert Gessner-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Robert Gessner was working in Hollywood, preparing the script of his Indian story, Massacre, when Hitler came into power in Germany. A broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors...
Last fortnight Author Gessner published his findings in a forthright volume calculated to force Jews to a realistic appraisal of the position of their race, to give Gentiles, except those whose prejudices have petrified, an uneasy realization of the crimes that are committed in the name of racial hatred. Mr. Gessner admits that he got very nervous, perhaps even frightened, when, on the train leaving France, an official shouted "Heil Hitler!" and a flustered lady replied, "The same to you." He heard of atrocities, saw some oppression, was not molested himself. But after he visited a famed rabbi in Munich...
UPSURGE-Robert Gessner-Farrar & Rinehart...