Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matter of fact the people of Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, are of every color from coal black through tawny brown to olive, include many non-Afric races. Centuries ago scornful Arabs nicknamed them Abyssinians ("mixed peoples"). Today members of the Royal House are strongly Semitized, claim descent from Hebrew King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, profess the religion of Coptic Christianity, acknowledge as their pope the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria...
...much as their kinsmen of the Continent. Nevertheless they would do well to remember that the fact of leadership of the Bolshevist campaign against civilization and religion being almost entirely in the hands of men of their blood has done inevitable and incalculable harm to the reputation of the Hebrew race in every country of its adoption...
...include the Medical and Dental Schools, distributed the 5,125 students into 37 religious groups. The largest total was the Episcopalian, 1066 or 20.8 percent, and increase of 92 or .6 percent in respective percentages over the figure for 1929, when, however, only 4812 students were tabulated. The Hebrew total of 765, or 14.9 percent, an increase of .6 percent over last year's figures, is followed by the Roman Catholic, 726 or 14.1 percent, Congregational, 537 or 10.4 percent: Presbyterian, 469 or 9.1 percent: Methodist, 431 or 8.4 percent, and Unitarian, 364 or 7.1 percent. Each of these groups...
Last week the American Hebrew received many a Jew's congratulations for accomplishing this deletion. Its Associate Editor Walter Hart Blumenthal last February flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich, extortioner, heretic, deceiver, impostor, harpy, schemer, lickpenny, pinchfist, Shylock, chicanery, duplicity, crafty.* Mr. Blumenthal, 47, sent his article to Thomas Irving Crowell, 65, Protestant. The 'B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other...
Abba Hillel Silver, 37, Cleveland rabbi, Vice Chairman of the Administrative Committee, Chairman of the subcommittee on the Hebrew University, Palestine...