Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Copernic bombing was the clearest indication yet that neofascism and anti-Semitism were testing French society. In the week before the explosion, two synagogues and two Hebrew schools in Paris were machine-gunned. On the day of the huge protest march through Paris, thugs tried to bomb a Jewish-owned grocery store in Grenoble and bar in Marseille, and attacked dozens of Jewish stores and homes in the countryside. Says Historian Pascal Ory, a specialist on the French right: "The new generation does not have firsthand memories of the failure of Nazism. They can romanticize it today...
...Rothschild family told Yale officials they will give the manuscript to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recipient of many donations from the Rothschilds...
There they have their first contact with the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS), which helps with adjustment to immediate problems of life in the West and guides the immigrants on the further stages of the journey. HIAS also provides any necessary financial assistance...
...immigrant, no matter how well trained in his field, still faces incredible problems of adjustment. William Bliss, who has been language instructor or administrator at Brookline's Hebrew College for the past seven years, says, "The most poignant issues are the ones that prevent immigrants from realizing the long-term problems of adaptation." Bliss says these problems include the "lack of language and the need to be self-supporting...
...York City, by tradition the largest and most famous immigrant gateway to the New World, now has 80,000 children in bilingual classes. About 60,000 are Spanish. Among the nine other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean and Russian. Naturally, in the shadow of Ellis Island, there are many nostalgic references to the melting pot and the role of the American high school in giving incoming foreigners their first shared experience of the American way of life. Proponents argue that what was best for grandfather is not good enough for immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather...