Word: ghettoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gershwin had just been born when his parents moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan's overcrowded Lower East Side. The earliest sounds young Gershwin heard were the clank of dishes in his father's restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought...
...Golem (AB Films). Ghetto legend in Prague says that in the early 17th Century, a mysterious Rabbi Loew, crony of Emperor Rudolph II, constructed a semi-human statue-monster called the Golem (the "Strong") which, if Prague's Jews ever needed aid, would come to life and provide it. In 1920 this legend provided the material for one of the most horrifying pictures ever made. Produced by UFA (see p. 52), directed by Paul Wegener. who also wrote the scenario and played the title role, it showed the Golem on an expressionistic rampage (see cut). Last year. Production Manager...
...sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
...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, wandered through the ghetto in Berlin, talked with Zionists, Jewish workers, capitalists, he found himself appalled at the conduct of the Association of German National Jews. This organization supports Hitler, fights the Jewish boycott of German goods. Another group, the Nazi Jews, advocates complete loyalty to the Nazi program, and Gessner was told they leave...
...total of $500. A Christian doctor gave him a stove, a table, some chairs and an old carpet. His family supplied linen. From a second-hand store he got two beds. With that he started Chicago's first maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month flat in a Ghetto tenement. "Constant poverty threatened to close the place," reminisced Dr. DeLee, who later charged $2,000 to $3,000 for a delivery, in Kansas City last week. "On one occasion 13? and half a loaf of stale bread represented the floating assets of the institution. I went home and borrowed...