Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hagana is Hebrew for "Defense," the title assumed by illegally armed Zionist extremists who believe in "direct action" to further a Jewish homeland...
...Palms. Burleigh learned to sing in Hebrew, Latin, Italian, French and German. For 25 years he sang not only in St. George's but also in the choir of Manhattan's best known synagogue, Temple Emanu-El. But his first loyalty has always been to St. George's, and he is a devout Episcopalian. This Lent he hopes to give his 50th rendition of Fauré's The Palms...
...east of the Bowery still keeps many features of its far from gay '90s. The uninspired yellow-brick Alliance building is one (not so the spacious playground near by). There, too, are the buildings of the leading U.S. Yiddish newspapers (The Jewish Daily Forward, The Jewish Day), a Hebrew teachers' seminary, Jankowitz' Yiddish Bookshop, the Hebrew National Kosher Sausage Co., and a fading group of bearded oldsters purchasing from street vendors outsize pretzels and freshly baked yams...
...Talmud, "If there be a need for a man, be thou that man," decided he would enter the rabbinate. He left Louisville, went to Johns Hopkins (where an English professor wrote on one of his themes: "Please describe something. You always preach."), then to Cincinnati's University and Hebrew Union College, then to Yale for a doctorate in psychology...
...Mines, Show Boat), carrying Water Boy to the ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving acoustics. In addition he has learned a dozen languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Welsh. For the war effort he has sung in camps all over the U.S. (even in the South), worked for the Treasury Department, broadcast to Europe for the OWI. Robeson has never shilly-shallied about his leftist sympathies, never blinked other minority problems than his own. Says he fiercely: "No Negro...