Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death left no particular gap-even among French intellectuals-because she had never seemed to belong anywhere. As a Jew she denounced everything Jewish; as a Christian she shrank from joining a church; as a political worker she had no faith in politics; as a revolutionary fighter she deplored reliance on force. Yet today Simone Weil is looked upon by an increasing audience as one of the outstanding religious figures of her time.* In the current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, is a penetrating study of the "Saint of the Absurd" by Leslie A. Fiedler, associate professor of humanities...
...Franz Rosenzweig, a German Jew, decided to become a Christian. Before he could be taken into the Lutheran Church, he dropped in for the 1913 Yom Kippur services at a little Berlin synagogue. Nobody is certain what thoughts and feelings the services gave him, but by the time they were over, Rosenzweig had changed his mind, resolved to live his religious life as a Jew and "return to where I have been elected from birth...
...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...
Some extremely odd and unpalatable aspects of Benjamin Freedman's charges began to seep out in testimony. The letter of indictment which he sent the Senate had been drafted with the help of Jew-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith in the offices of Mississippi's vitriolic Representative John Rankin. Freedman testified that he had been visited by Don Surine (an employee of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy) and Edward K. Nellor (an employee of Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.), who came bearing a letter of introduction from Rabble-Rouser Smith...
Then one day Emily meets one of Roger's law associates, a dark, magnetic Jew who kisses her fiercely before a roaring fire. "You're a woman," he mutters thickly, "and not just a lady." So Emily finds "a man who would have been ... a master as well as a mate ... a man whose seed would have been as fruitful as his sovereignty was supreme, who would have begotten a son in the first consummation of union" - if she had given him the chance...