Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staging the story, for which Jews have been reviled through the centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant...
Throughout the world last week all Jews celebrated the last day of the Passover feast.* But in the three great centres of Jewry?historic Jerusalem, young Tel Aviv and New York City?the celebrations differed vastly...
...Jerusalem is the holiest place in the world of Jewry: the Wailing Wall, sole remnant, it is said, of the silently-built temple of Solomon. Here, too, for Christians to worship, is the empty tomb of Christ, and for Mohammedan Arabs, the Coffin of Mohammed, studded with 17 gold nails...
...gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...
Zeppelin Tour. Having taken its first spring jaunt to Jerusalem (TIME, April 8), the Graf Zeppelin took its second, last week, to the Madeira Islands. Rising from Friedrichshafen one afternoon with 20 paying passengers, Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease...