Word: israels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of the highly decorated Wildenstein Galleries in Manhattan last week hung a collection of 48 lush canvases, opulently framed, softly lit, richly varnished. Ten of them were mural studies of the Prophets of Israel. The rest were the latest crop of portraits of bigwigs by Britain's Frank O. Salisbury, member of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and favorite portraitist of George...
Last week 300 rabbis and 800 Orthodox Jews crammed New York's oldest synagog, little Beth Hamidrash Hagodol on the East Side. The issur, which the rabbis had voted to "declare, pronounce, issue and publish," was read aloud by venerable Rabbi Israel Dusovitz. Beshawled and wearing phylacteries* strapped to his forehead, the rabbi parted a pair of curtains to reveal the Ark of the Covenant and the Scrolls of the Law which are shown to Jews only on the most solemn occasions. Holding aloft the issur, he invoked the blessing of God, exclaimed: "The issur is now in force...
Second source of the Protocols is an economic romance entitled Biarritz, written in 1868 by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name of Sir John Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech...
...With Israel Amter, Communist candidate for governor, leading their bedraggled forces, the marchers settled down in a vacant Albany house and mapped their next line of attack...
...Israel made no such claim for himself. . . . We three who covered the case, knowing for a fact that we had been sent out on the inquiry the day after Edwards' arrest . . . and that we were sent solely on the strength of Mr. Israel's recognition of the popular appeal lodging in the resemblance to Dreiser's story, felt he alone was entitled to credit as first to spot the idea...