Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jews identify with the Conservative and Reform branches, and believe their religious legitimacy would be challenged. They also fear diminished support for a radicalized Israel. "This is something of an endeavor to make Israel more of a theocratic state," says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. "Psychologically it is damaging. It says some Jews are more equal than others...
Both Shamir and Peres defined the key election issues as peace and the Palestinian question. But once the votes were tallied, Israelis found themselves plunged into debate over the religious orientation of their state. Observed Hebrew University professor Ehud Sprinzak: "Most of the results have nothing to do with peace and security problems, but with a new sort of configuration inside Israel. The people are going back to God." Said Avraham Burg, a new Labor Deputy: "The results reflect a protest against the major blocs. The religious element is crystallizing into a third bloc, which will determine who will...
...people around him and the memories within. His scenes of public baths, markets and Underground entrances are packed with small figures, stuck in their social matrix as though in jam (especially given Kossoff's dense pigment) -- a pictorial equivalent, as it were, of the double meaning of the Hebrew word olam, which means world but also crowd. A painting like A Street in Willesden, 1985, reminds one of how pointless the stereotypes about English art have become. It is not anecdotal, witty, light or conversational. Rather, the opposite. In Kossoff, an obdurate grandeur of intention is coupled with a deep...
...sensitive to this split down the middle of his language. He has written a novel whose conceit is that it is a dictionary of three immiscible languages, with three distinct alphabets, corresponding to the three major religions that have shaped the Western world: Greek (Christian), Arabic (Islam) and Hebrew (Judaism...
...frightened off by the number of languages. Pavic composed his novell-as-dictionary in a single language, Serbo-Croatian, and Christina Pribicevic-Zoric has translated the novel into lucid English. The novel, however, is divided into three separate dictionaries, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, called the Red Book, the Green Book and the Yellow Book. To help orient the reader, Knopf's bookmakers have designed small icons, in the appropriate colors, that appear in the upper outside corner of nearly every page...