Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Education: "In addition to the modern grade and high schools, a technical school has been opened at Haifa; and the entire system is about to be crowned with the Hebrew University* on Mount Skopos, near the Mount of Olives...
...prize of $100 is being offered by the American Hebrew, a New York religious magazine, for the best essay written by an American undergraduate on the subject: "How to Meet the Rising Tide of Prejudice." The prize, which is to be known as the Lazarus prize in honor of its donor, Mr. Arthur Lazarus of New York, has been offered in conjunction with the purpose of the magazine, which is to promote better understanding between Christians and Jews in America. Essays are not to exceed 3000 words in length, and must be handed in to the magazine's New York...
Significance. Jewish publications, of whatever character, inevitably express the Hebrew faith. The editors of The Commonweal, while notably receptive, at once identified themselves as watchful guardians of the Petrine Rock. When their magazine appeared, many reflected that, though tacitly represented by scores of unofficial publications, Protestantism has no lay organs definitely and forthrightly wedded to its cause. Split two ways, into various denominations and into various strata of orthodoxy, it is doubtful that Protestantism could have such organs. Moreover, not being greatly given to organization, it is doubtful that Protestantism will ever seek to have them...
Professor Fenn is a Unitarian. Since 1901 he has been Bussey Professor of Systematic Theology in the University. He was also Dean of the Divinity School from 1906 until its union with Andover Theological Seminary in 1916. He is the author of "The Flowering of the Hebrew Religion" and several other works in this field...