Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the war he helped to found in Jerusalem a modern publishing house, which publishes the "Palestine Weekly" in English, and the "Dvor Hoyom," a daily, in Hebrew. He is an active director and editor of both of these publications. During the last year he devoted some time to theatrical productions in New York, and was responsible for the production of the Spanish musical comedy, "The Wild Cat," and in London he produced the "The Risk," "the Torch," and "Listening...
...spotlight falls upon a ten-year old lightning calculator. For an instant a boy of twelve who in two months learns German and enough French to carry on conversation holds the stage. But his glory pales beside a youth who has just mastered his fifteenth language, and that Hebrew. Boy chess champions, "little Sampson" Otts, Jackle Coogans, Baby Peggys, infant prodigies...
...Nisson Touroff, head of the educational system of Palestine, and now Dean of the Hebrew Teachers' College of Boston, will speak at the first general meeting of the Zionist Society in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The subject will be "Zionism as a Philosophy of Life". A general discussion will follow the talk. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...Southerner (South Carolina), a scholar (Hebrew, Philosophy), a clergyman, Dr. Vinson was warmly welcomed in Mr. Thwing's salutation. Dr. Splawn, down in Texas, may well have noted these phrases about his former chief: "In Austin, he fought with political beasts from almost the beginning to the close of his illustrious career. He overcame them by wisdom, persistence, high idealism and personal charm. The qualities which won in the Southern give great promise of a like wining in the Northern field...
Five hundred thousand dollars pledged at $1 a head from the United Hebrew trades...