Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are 328 Jewish schools. 135 agricultural settlements of which 70 are under the supervision of the Jewish Agency. Hadassah (female Zionist organization) looks after 50 hospitals, clinics and dispensaries, which exist for Arabs and Christians as well as Jews. Palestine has its own Hebrew university, founded in 1925. The Jewish population of Palestine runs its own religious affairs. But it is a minority (16.9%) without political power, save for the advisory powers conferred on the Jewish Agency by the mandate, allotted to Great Britain ten years ago. Chief set-back of the decade: the British Government's policy, published...
Nest. Poet Jeffers' birthplace was Pittsburgh, in 1887. From North Ireland had come his paternal grandfather. His father, an LL.D. learned in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, had married an orphan 23 years, his junior. John Robinson Jeffers was the first fruit; the second. Hamilton Jeffers, now engaged in astronomical work at Lick Observatory, came seven years later...
...from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking...
...Sarah Jane Dellis when they married 19 years ago. They have no children. When Cartoonist Hershfield stays home in the evening he reads Goethe, Kant, Spinoza. He has written one serious novel (SuperCity}, has completed another (By Appointment}. Also he has completed Ye Salami Shoppe, a collection of "Hebrew" jokes dedicated "To my relatives who can hardly wait for the royalties." He has one brother and seven sisters. He employs no secretary, answers voluminous mail by wire...
Though Moses and the Hebrew prophets cornered the Western market long ago, other races, other men have produced scripture too. Such a one is Black Elk, holy medicine man of the Ogalala Sioux. His life story, told to and superbly set down by Poet Neihardt, has the quality of true scripture. More generic than literature, which reflects individual men's spirits, it reflects whatever divine image there may be in a tribe, a race...