Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable handbook, soon to be published, will be Who's Who in American Jewry. To the Hebrew scientists whose names will appear therein was despatched a questionnaire to determine their religious affiliations. Seven percent of the scientists had none, 4.6% mentioned none, the rest had definite religious affiliations...
...Menuhin, senior, settled in Palestine when a young man. His name at that time was not Menuhin. He adopted this Hebrew name to signify the peacefulness which his sensitive spirit found in the land of his forefathers, Palestine. His wife was a native Palestinian Jewish girl. They married, emigrated to the U. S. and made their home in San Francisco...
...Cohens and Kellys in Paris. If there is anything inherently comic about Irish individuals and Hebrew individuals when placed in boisterous juxtaposition, this film, like its predecessor, The Cohens and Kellys, is no doubt hilarious. The previous picture not only was, in the opinion of many, a riot; it also caused violent scenes to take place in some of the theatres where it was shown. People threw tomatoes at the screen and at each other. The sequel is less likely to precipitate...
Benjamin was Jacob's youngest son (there were eleven others). But Benjamin was not his original name. Rachel, before she died in giving him birth, called him Benoni, which in Hebrew means "son of my sorrow." Widower Jacob renamed the baby Benjamin; "Child of my right hand...
...American Hebrew Magazine (weekly) published a "Who's Who" of Jewry, based on achievements in 1927. Two non-Jews had the honor of being included-Dr. George Foot Moore of Harvard for his book Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for his gifts to Jewish causes. Jews & Jewesses saluted included: Sculptors Jo Davidson, Jacob Epstein, Max Kalisch; Aviation Promoters Daniel Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim, Charles A. Levine; Benchers & Barristers Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Garfield Hays Carolyn Fromberg Loeb, Joseph N. Proskauer, Samuel Untermyer; Civic Benefactors Albert M. Greenfield (Philadelphia), Albert...