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Word: jew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Foliage | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Germans invaded Belgium in 1940. "It was then that I made the smartest move of my life," Wolpe recalls. "I had read Mein Kampf and knew I didn't stand a chance of escaping, so I volunteered for a German labor battalion. They never suspected that I was a Jew...

Author: By Mark L. Goodman, | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/31/1951 | See Source »

...tenor of his speech gradually changed from denunciation of the Catholic officials who had taken his pulpit away from him to a bitter dissertation on Jews and the Jewish faith. "For all my troubles, I've been calied every name that a Jew or a heretic could think of," he began...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/16/1951 | See Source »

...heckling continued. Father Feeney got angrier and angrier. He screamed, "People have been calling me a Hitler. That's a typical Jew trick. The Jews in Boston are trying to take our religion away." He made frequent appeals to the picture of Mary and the statue of Jesus as the shouts continued from the crowd. Pointing to the statue, he said, "That's the child that the Jews despise and the Protestants ignore...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/16/1951 | See Source »

...modern times, millions of men & women of Jewish origin have renounced Judaism as their spiritual country. Such men & women think (or say they think) that the word "Jew" should be on a par with "Baptist," "Congregationalist" or "Catholic"-and should apply only to the Jews who have elected to be, or to remain, Jews. Rabbi Finkelstein's Torah teaches him that the covenant God made with Israel is an inescapable covenant. "The choosing by God," says he, "was like Selective Service." It is binding on all Jews, to the last generation on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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