Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the American tradition about which I have spoken here, in a way that must have sometimes sounded idyllic or nationalistic, is but an extension and working out of ideas and insights of European thinkers-French, German, and especially English-and their Greek and Hebrew forebears . . . What a gross impertinence it would be if an American intellectual should actually ask Europeans to defend the democratic tradition without at the same time acknowledging that the free citizen is in large part no American gadget but Europe's greatest creation...
...world's two dozen or so other Salems, most of which are named, directly or indirectly, after a Hebrew word for peace...
...looked down, turned away to bury his face in his hands. Out in the street two men began slugging each other; one of them, someone reported, had called Garfield a Communist. But Jules Garfinkle was past caring. "He came like a meteor." said Rabbi Louis Newman at the Reformed Hebrew service, "and like a meteor he departed...
When he began his translations, Jerome was already a master of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. To understand the Hebrew Scripture more thoroughly, he hired local rabbis (as he complained, "for no small sum of money") to explain difficult passages-especially the Book of Job. With a good feeling both for Latin and Hebrew, his translation steered the difficult middle course between a literal and a figurative interpretation...
Pulitzer prize winner Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, yesterday told delegates to a convention of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society that the immigration laws of the United States "were enacted in an atmosphere of the Ku Klux Klan...