Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an enumeration, though considerably larger than the one ordered by the Lord for the Hebrew tribes, would not necessitate a huge expenditure. For the census, if undertaken by the constituted relief authorities, would not cost much more than the extra expense for stationery and cigars for the field force and light wines and beer for the secretariat...
Tomorrow afternoon, at 4:15 o'clock in Emerson Hall, Huge Bergmanh professor of Modern Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, will speak on the "Philosophy of Henry Bergson." This will be open to the public...
...Catholicism was represented, unofficially, by his good friend Judge John McGoorty, who, though a devout Catholic, is often called "assistant pastor of Peoples Church." Spokesman for Jewry was popular Rabbi Mann, who rejoiced that Adolf Hitler declined to allow Preston Bradley in Germany last year. Prayed Rabbi Mann, in Hebrew: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
...formula for bringing the Golem to life, tells it to his wife. The Golem is not disturbed until most of Prague's Jews have been tossed into the lion pit in the Emperor's dungeons. Jacob's wife then whispers the magic words, scratches some Hebrew letters on the Golem's forehead and tells him to get started. The rampage in this case does not last long. After bending some iron bars, brushing a few walls and cracking a pillar or two, the Golem (Ferdinand Hart) throws Rudolph out a window. Rabbi Jacob then makes...
...ever the stage was set for a masterpiece, it was at the start, of the Stuart rule. The Hebrew text of the Bible, with vocabulary "simple and sensuous", is itself supremely translatable. St. Jeronie's Vulgate formed a bridge into the Latin. Wycliffe, Tyndale, and Coverdale had blazed the English trail. And the forty seven scholars, the most learned that England could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small...