Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish early spring festival commemorating the story of Haman, a sth Century B.C. Jew-baiter and Prime Minister of Persia's King Xerxes (Ahasuerus). The King finally had him hanged for his virulent anti-Semitism upon the intervention of Queen Esther, a beautiful Jewess. *In Ipswich, England, Tommy Hailstone, 12, was found by his sister last week, hanging by a cord in a storeroom. Said his father: "I believe Tommy had been reading in the papers about the Xiirnberg hangings and was staging a hanging himself...
Julius Streicher, brutish publisher of Nürnberg's Der Stürmer, No.1 i Jew-baiter of the regime and possessor of what was said to have been the world's largest collection of pornographic literature...
...Ukrainian Jew...
Parts of A Flag Is Born are colorful theater and parts are biting propaganda; there is nice music by Kurt Weill and nice acting by Paul Muni as an uprooted old Jew who dies on the road to Palestine. But the evening is only fitfully effective. Hitting from all sides, working in all moods-now pathetic, now heroic, now angry, now scornful-A Flag Is Born lacks singleness of impact...
Nearby stands the Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...