Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, which had regarded Faisal as an anti-Jewish zealot who financed Arab wars and terrorism, there was neither joy nor mourning but a noticeable sense of relief at the unexpected death of a powerful enemy. "A Jew-hating Arab king," declared the Tel Aviv religious daily Hatzofeh, "has been removed from the stage." Most Israelis obviously hoped that the change in Saudi leadership would create a period of instability for the Arab states, thereby causing them to become more preoccupied with their own problems and less concerned with Israel for a while...
...celebrated geniuses of the Jews of modernity, in Cuddihy's view, have been intellectual Davids slaying Gentile Goliaths. Why? Because historically, successful assimilation required that the Jews "be nice," that they accept the impersonal, formal civility of Gentile society at the expense of the more idiosyncratic, traditionally religious world of the ghetto. Instead of being nice, Marx, Freud and others persisted in the "coarseness that reveals," and codified their resistance into vast intellectual systems. Such people, says Cuddihy, reacted to anti-Semitism by exposing the hypocrisy at the root of non-Jewish "appearances," despising those who concealed their Jewishness...
Died. Theodore Schocken, 60, president of Schocken Books, Inc.; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. A Jew, Schocken took over his father's Berlin publishing house in 1934 at the age of 19, issued a collection of Franz Kafka, including the corrosively antitotalitarian novel The Trial. Publication was soon halted by the Gestapo. Driven into exile in 1938, Schocken fought with the U.S. Army against the Nazis, later established his own publishing house in New York, bringing out translations of Kafka's once verboten works...
Stavisky remains a relatively opaque character. His facade is everything. He was born a Russian Jew; his family fled from the pogroms, and his respectable father, a dentist, committed suicide when he learned of Stavisky's first arrest some years before the action of the film takes place. Despite his own doctor's diagnosis of megalomania and schizophrenia, Belmondo's Stavisky is relatively attractive, down to the last minutes when he is trapped like an animal in a Swiss chalet, with stubble growing on his chin like a cheap American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns...
...American Jews, like any other group, resist easy classification and generalizations. They are fragmented by differences of class and religion, geography and background, education and lifestyle. In many ways, an Orthodox Jew may inhabit a world apart from a Reform Jew; a Jew from Germany may have less in common with a Jew from Eastern Europe than with non-Jews. Yet Jews are united on many issues. Fundamental is education. No other ethnic group sends so many of its sons and daughters to college. While only one-fourth of the general population that is 25 or older has had some...