Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, defying warnings from demonstrators, the new resident general attended the funeral for the Bastille Day victims in Casablanca's big cathedral. The seething crowd made a rush at Grandval, yelling "Dirty Jew" and "To the gallows," ripped off an epaulet and his cap before police could hustle him into...
...Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in the June 20 issue . . . The Lorelei was not written by [his forebear] Clemens Brentano, but by Heinrich Heine . . . When the Nazis came to power, they felt they had to "appropriate" it for the Nordic race. They omitted the name of the Jew Heine and just called it "a folksong." Clemens Brentano, however, has one real claim to fame: he was the joint editor of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, one of the most important folksong collections in the history of German literature...
...proud, nationalistic Jews of Israel, it is not pleasant to have to recall a time, only too recent, when survival itself depended on the capricious favor of hated oppressors. Yet many a transplanted European in Israel remembers well the days of Nazi power when his life and welfare hinged on the diplomatic skill of a stadlan (fixer), some fellow Jew either tactful, suave, or thick-skinned enough to curry favor with the enemy and thus win a measure of reprieve for his people. That memory, stirred by a court trial, agitated all Israel last week and brought down the Cabinet...
...Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel. Uncommonly moving tales of war, death, courage and ghetto life by an uncommonly gifted Odessa Jew (TIME, June...
Born in 1894, in an era of sanctioned pogroms, Babel did not need to see his father in the mud to have a firsthand knowledge of the ordeal of a Russian Jew. In The Story of My Dovecot, Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face...