Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx, N. Y., Mrs. Shirley Lippmann gave orders for her newborn son to be inducted into the Hebrew faith according to prescribed ritual. Thirty minutes later hospital attendants laid on her pillow a baby boy neatly circumcised. Moaned Mrs. Lippmann: "That's not my Michael." Shrieked Mrs. Alfred Lyman from the next bed: "That's my Robert." Because the operation "irreparably altered their son's physical condition, repugnantly and contrary to the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith," Catholic Mr. and Mrs. Lyman brought suit for $75,000 against the Jewish hospital director, the Jewish mohel...
...right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only Ma's old friend, the Butcher Freiberg (Joseph Greenwald) maintains his customary calm, wagging his head as he reads Hebrew prayers in the Solomon parlor...
...recorder of Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly breaks her engagement to the village tosspot, goes to live with a kindly old Hebrew publican (Sam Jaffe), learns to like the Talmud. The town recorder looks into the matter further and discovers that Klari is neither Jew nor Catholic but a Protestant foundling. She shuts the Talmud and reopens her engagement...
Died. Chaim Nachman Bialik, 61, Hebrew poet, "Wordsworth of Hebrew literature." critic, journalist, Yiddish-Hebrew translator; of a heart attack following an operation; in Vienna. An English translation of his poems was published...
Although these are virtually all whom the American Hebrew considers worthy of notice, there are still others, most of them young, and in nominally unimportant positions. Example: Benjamin Victor Cohen, 40, a Brain Trust attorney who is PWA's assistant general counsel. He had a large hand in drafting the Stock Exchange Control Bill and, contrary to all rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like...