Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject, then focused this knowledge on sociology. For the solution of social problems he labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford...
...there since 1921. Of this the U. S. gave $100,000,000. Eretz Israel ("Land of Israel'') now has a great £1,000,000 Palestine Electric Corp., founded by Engineer Pinhas Rutenberg, whose stations in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and in the Jordan valley supply all Palestine (except Jerusalem) with power. The Agricultural Experimental Station of the Keren Hayesod (colonization & immigration) teaches scientific farming and has experimental fields. The clean, white, all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") more than doubled its population (46,000). For building trades exists the General Mortgage Bank of Palestine, first...
...twelve tongues (he politely corrected Louis Wiley of the New York Times who, at a dinner, credited him with only nine). He addressed his audience in Yiddish last week, departing from his set speech to eulogize the late Boris Schatz, head of the Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts in Jerusalem, who had died in Denver during the week. Boris Schatz had appealed for funds for his school and museum. He died in poverty. Said President Sokolow: "Today, all that we can give to Boris Schatz is our pity. . . . It is my hope that American Jews will not permit the fate...
Nathan Straus Sr., who made a fortune in R. H. Macy & Co. and other metropolitan department stores, spent most of his time and money on milk stations and propaganda for promoting pasteurization. His interest in Palestine came comparatively late in life, and all his strictly Jewish benefactions (including the Jerusalem Health Centre) totaled less than the $5,000,000 which the late Julius Rosenwald gave for Jewish colonization in Crimea. Nathan Straus Jr. did not take part in Zionist affairs until comparatively recently. Educated at Heidelberg and Princeton (as a graduate student under Woodrow Wilson), he became a cub reporter...
...Symphony players to a dark corner of the Carnegie Hall stage. In their usual place a great gilt-framed triptych stood, spattered with stars and angels. Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria, a temple doorway in Jerusalem, a grotto in a desert beyond the River Jordan. Over the half-hidden orchestra, Composer Respighi benignly presided while wanton Mary of Egypt, his latest creation, flaunted her trade on the water front, repented and finally crawled, a sainted harridan, into a grave dug by a lion in the middle...