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Latest writer to tell the old, old story is Sholem Asch, sad-eyed Polish-Jewish novelist (Three Cities), now in the U. S. Published this week is his long (698 pages) The Nazarene, November Book-of-the-Month.* As full of Hebraic fervor, and often as mournful, as a synagogue chant-it was written in Yiddish-The Nazarene brings ancient Palestine to life, offers the most extraordinary evocation of Jesus since Renan's. Yet Author Asch's viewpoint is so objective it should not offend Christian sensibilities...
...People "of the Hebraic race" who have settled in the Kingdom of Italy, Libya or Italian Aegean Islands since Jan. 1, 1919 were last week ordered by the Italian Cabinet to depart before March 1, 1939 or be forcibly expelled. Commented No. 1 Fascist Newspundit Virginio Gayda: "These Jews, political or racial refugees of other countries, represent a foreign and perilous body and spirit inserted in the body and spirit of the Italian nation." The decree will oust about 20,000 of the estimated 85,000 persons in Italy "born of both parents of the Hebrew race." Next...
...Germany who do not bear "Jewish" first names must add to their names "Israel" or "Sarah," according to their sex. The question then arose: What constitutes a Jewish name? That question became a pressing one not only for 500,000 German Jews but for "Aryan" Germans with such Hebraic names as Paul, Joseph, David. Last week the Government resolved doubts by publishing an official list of Jewish names-including no Pauls or Josephs. Some of them...
HARL MCDONALD: Two HEBRAIC POEMS (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor). Short, agreeable impressionistic pieces by a steadily developing younger U. S. composer...
...Evocations, as in many earlier works* (Schelomo, Israel Symphony, Sacred Service, Voice in the Wilderness), Bloch mixes French Impressionism with fervent Levantine lamentation, getting an idiomatic pottage peculiarly his own. His finest scores reflect the barbaric splendor of the Old Testament, sing their Hebraic song with prophetic thunder and wailing intensity. Even his "America" Symphony -which won a $5,000 prize offered in 1927 by Musical America for the most distinguished work by a resident American- was colored by Hebraic idioms...