Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moses. Not only David's victory over Goliath but other marvelous episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...
...Jewish half gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...
...permitted education practically everywhere; farm colonization in Russia; the economic depression in Palestine overcome; Zionists at last agreeing; Jews and Christians holding love feasts in England and the U. S.; proselytizing of U. S. Jews discouraged; Jewish education aggressively pushed throughout the U. S.; a non-religious renaissance of Hebrew culture everywhere. Jews have become exuberant and expansive in the happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear now is that a politico-economic condition might insidiously arise to throttle them again. An effort to prevent such a thing is the $1,000 prize award announced this week...
News of the beggars' dilemma, the bakers' strike, was partly disseminated by the Davar, Hebrew labor daily, which last week was given a linotype machine, equipped to compose in Hebrew and English, by the National Labor Committee for the Organized Jewish Workers in Palestine, headquarters in New York City...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...