Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life. First and foremost he was a Jew. Later he was a professional Jew-the Jew in politics. On a keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years old, he is the brains of the Ludlow Street Gang...
...Thomas W. Goodspeed, of the University of Chicago, recently modernized the New Testament (TIME, Sept. 3). Now it is announced his colleagues in the Hebrew Department are to do a similar work for the Old Testament. A committee, headed by Dr. J. M. P. Smith, Professor of Old Testament Literature, will undertake the task...
Henry Ford: "It became generally known-through the loud denunciations of Herman Bernstein, editor of The Jewish Tribune and, Hebrew Standard -that The Jewish Morning Journal and The Jewish Daily Forward recently carried advertisements of Ford cars, trucks, tractors...
...remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward." The evidence appears to show that "Millo" was a tower or fort which existed even before the Hebrew conquest...
...George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson, the great French philosopher, member of the French Academy and Commander in the Legion of Honor; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian, 'supreme in the field of belles-lettres...