Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entry into the Jewish community, he thought someone was joking. Several letters from Manduzio were left unanswered. Then the Chief Rabbi took notice. The letters-which invariably bore the date according to the Jewish calendar, began with the traditional words "beloved brethren" and ended with "shalom" written in clear Hebrew letters-told how Manduzio had made converts, first a few individuals, then whole families: a total of 80 people. Most of Donato,s fellow cobblers in San Nicandro had joined him in the Jewish faith...
Half an hour later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
...Mountaintop. He withdrew into scholarship. Having mastered Yiddish and Hebrew, he delved deep into Jewish culture, became a Zionist. In 1922, after being shipwrecked on the way, he landed in Palestine. There he decided to stay for the rest of his life. In 1925, when Jewish and British notables gathered on Mount Scopus to dedicate Hebrew University, he was made its first chancellor...
...students themselves. From funds raised by Jews throughout the world, he has slowly equipped its laboratories, painstakingly built up the greatest library in the Near East, is now completing its medical school. The University has become a refuge for Europe's Jewish scholars, and the greatest center of Hebrew culture in the world (all its classes are conducted in Hebrew). Its professors have developed new processes for local industries, all but arrested many of the diseases that once ravaged Palestine, set up the first cancer foundation in the region, carried on vast irrigation projects to help Palestine...
...protest against him; once Arabs set upon a car bearing two of his guests and killed the driver. But he has never let his university become a center of violence ("this vain doctrine, this pagan torch"). From his own turbulent life, he has learned that the future of the Hebrew University lies elsewhere-"not by might, nor by force, but by [the] spirit...