Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reportedly some others from the Italian front. Their orders: fight in every room of every house-Budapest must disappear from the face of the earth before Russian troops may have it. Ruling the ancient city's defenders was one of the grimmest, most corrupt of Nazis: Palestine-born, Hebrew-speaking SS Obergruppenführer Karl Eichmann, who had made an enormous racket out of Hungary's anti-Semitic campaign. (He hired out the healthy, executed the aged and halt, opened escape routes to the wealthy...
Palestine's new High Commissioner, Field Marshal Lord Gort, drove ceremonially through Jerusalem's tortuous, tipped-up streets. Crowds shouted (in Hebrew) "Shalom"; (in Arabic) "Salaam." Both words meant peace. But the words were only words: the Holy Land was tense again with trouble. Jews and Arabs had given up open fighting for the duration. But through the Palestine censorship, tightest in the Middle East, trickled tales of Jewish terrorism against the British...
...imaginative energy. The final volume's 606 pages bring the epic of Joseph to its end (Bible version, 21 pages; Mann's version, 2,005 pages). Few readers will want to know all of Mann's retelling of the story, the resuscitation of Egyptian and Hebrew thought and customs with which he surrounds it, the lessons for the modern world he derives from it. But no contemporary reader can afford not to know what is in Thomas Mann's version of the life of Joseph...
...Brooklyn, bearded patriarchs of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home marched the street in prayer shawls and skull caps, sounding the shofars. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and at many & many another church, the indifferent city warmed, and people came to pray, to weep, to share that world morning. In their various ways pagans and pastors acknowledged their presence "in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment...
...food and wine. He read widely-from Plato to comic strips-and remembered everything. He loved music and the Bible, was a serious student of philosophy, strategy, religious history. He knew the Army manuals and the lives of all the great generals by heart. He spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew. He was a formidable and logical argufier and he loved to bait brass hats. He never suffered fools gladly...