Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a section of U. S. public opinion which distrusts the more radical measures of the New Deal and blames them on the Jewish advisers of President Roosevelt. Year ago the American Hebrew pointed with pride to the list of Jews serving in the Administration or acting as advisers to the President. By last week the undercurrent of talk about the "Jewish influence" in Washington had become such a steady buzz throughout the land that the same magazine was prompted to publish another article entitled "Exploding the Myth of a 'Jewish Hierarchy'." By calling the roll...
...contemporary composers who has the respect of conservatives and radicals alike is Ernest Bloch, Jew by blood, Swiss by birth, American by citizenship. Everyone who knows of Bloch knows he is a Jew. His greatest works declaim the suffering of the Hebrews, their religious exaltation. Last week in Manhattan Bloch's faith and eloquence were manifested again in the U. S. premiere of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a setting for the liturgical texts used in the Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members...
...Morison is undisputed master. These hours are particularly pleasing as much time is spent in retelling the life of the undergraduate of two centuries ago. Fine tales of college pranks a la 1700 told in an inimitable style give one to believe that it was not all Greek and Hebrew in the old days...
...Higher Critics are wrong in alleging that the Bible is based on oral tradition current in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries B.C. Sir Charles's discoveries show that alphabetical writings in archaic Hebrew, some paralleling Biblical passages, were set down in 1400 B.C., in the time of Moses...
Month ago German Ambassador Hans Luther marched into the State Department in Washington and slapped down a formal protest. In Manhattan the American Jewish Congress, the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis, the Federation of Palestine Jews, the Jewish Legion, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. Young Judaea. Young Poale Zion and many other Semitic organizations were about to put Adolf Hitler on trial as an enemy to civilization. Was not such a proceeding an unfriendly act? Dr. Luther demanded. Undersecretary of State Phillips shrugged his well-tailored shoulders and retorted that free speech still exists in the U. S., that...