Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt was awarded the 1938 American Hebrew Medal "for outstanding service in promoting Better Understanding between Christians and Jews." Worse understanding between Americans and "Aryans" was the immediate result: the Nazi press flayed the President as a tool of Jewry...
...Italy's dictator, voiced his fears that the decision of U. S. distributors to withhold their pictures from Italy would keep Italians from the movies. Then he added for his father's sake: "Personally and politically I am content that American films produced in that Hebrew Communist centre which is Hollywood, are not to enter Italy...
Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, was announced yesterday to have been elected to the board of directors of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. The American organization aids the university in Jerusalem...
...walled City of Jerusalem, ruled during 30 centuries by Jebusites, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Persians, Arabs, Turks and British, fell again last week. It was the latest of a long list of occupations of Jerusalem since the time that King David's powerful Hebrew forces, gaining an entrance through the city's waterworks, took the Jebusite stronghold in the Eleventh Century...
...important English example is a perfect copy of Caxton's "Royal Book", dated about 1487. Noteworthy among the Spanish collectors items is the "Usatges do Barcelona e Constituciones do Catalunya", printed at Bareelona about 1495. Among the Portuguese incunabula is a Hebrew Bible, dated in Lisbon...