Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divorce from her first husband after they separated in 1942 because a rabbi advised her that she did not need one. The husband, one Abraham Borokovsky, was a Christian who had converted to Judaism, but in the eyes of Mrs. Langer's rabbi, he was not really a Jew, so that a divorce was not required. A rabbinical court later rejected that argument and declared her still married to Borokovsky...
Mendelssohn grew up in Berlin, but that city was not always kind to him. Because he was born a Jew, the Nazis did their best to expunge his name, and his elegant, sweet, highly uncontroversial works, from Germany between 1933 and 1945. What happened thereafter was odd if not downright shameful. Mendelssohn's name remained forgotten in postwar Germany, his music rarely played. Even his grave, in the Mendelssohn family plot, was all but lost amidst the rubble and weeds in Berlin's Holy Trinity Cemetery...
Both Disraeli and Nixon were rather elusive figures in their native land-the one a Sephardic Jew who, as Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, "created himself in the likeness of an anti-Semitic cartoon," though he became an Anglican; the other a man who often seemed shallow and without strong roots. Both made their contemporaries uneasy for reasons that could not always be spelled out. Each in his time was underestimated by others, Disraeli because of his rakish dilettantism, Nixon because of his bland ordinariness. Both were dismissed as opportunists; few perceived the fire within. Neither of them ever gave...
...Yiddish writer read an essay and his latest short story--a spare and gentle account of an American Jew's visit to his Polish parents--answered questions, and expounded an aesthetic theory in which "the essence of fiction is the study of character and individuality...
...Zilkha is a multinational entrepreneur. An Iraqi-born Jew, he was educated at Williams College in Massachusetts, is a U.S. citizen, and lives in England. After spending 15 years in the Manhattan, London and Paris offices of his family's banking business, he decided that "I wanted to do something more exciting." Backed by the family's money, he bought some drugstores and tacked on maternity and child-care sections. He soon concluded that mothers prefer stores that sell only baby products and have clerks who are expert in such matters as maternity undergarments and baby carriages. "Mothers...