Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undergo an appalling sexual test. He passes. The guards thought, as he tells Horst, " 'He's a bit bent.' They said, 'He can't' ... but I did." For his reward, Max is permitted to wear the yellow star marking him a Jew, which gives him preferential treatment over the homosexuals, who wear pink triangles...
...brief but moving talk, Simone Veil, a French Jew who survived Bergen-Belsen and is now President of the European Parliament, recalled how the music of gypsy fiddlers had bolstered the morale of the camp's prisoners, until one day the music stopped. She pledged her support for a ten-point list of demands that gypsy leaders presented to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week. It asks, among other things, for an official acknowledgment of the Germans' responsibility for the gypsies' wartime persecution and an end to discrimination in jobs and housing, free access to campsites...
...people of an Arab village do not want us there, they should be allowed to live their entire lives without seeing a single Jew. That should be true even in Nablus. We would say: ''All right, you don't want Israeli tourists; we can live without visiting Nablus. But whether you like it or not, you have to accept that an Israeli will be allowed to buy land or even a house in Nablus if the owner wants to sell it. We are not foreigners here, and neither...
...improbable coincidence, three of the protagonists are students there: David Rostov, a Soviet who will later become an ambitious intelligence officer in Moscow; Yasif Hassan, a Palestinian who subsequently serves as a triple agent for the Egyptians, the Soviets and the fedayeen; and Nathaniel Dickstein, a cockney Jew who migrates to Israel and wins fame as his adopted country's most resourceful...
...Sunday morning at Oxford, Al Cortone, a discharged G.I., catches up with Dickstein, who as a wartime tommy had saved his life in Sicily. The Soviet, the Palestinian, the Jew and the Yank meet over sherry at the house of Stephen Ashford, professor of Semitic literature, and his ravishing Lebanese wife. The Ashfords' small daughter Suza is there too. Over the amontillado, conversations come and go, foreshadowing characters' destinies...