Word: jewes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stated that the Jew is often made the scapegoat because of basic differences that divide him from the total community. Thus, a Jew becomes identified with an object of hatred with which he has no connection...
Although Danny Kaye may never become a great Hamlet, his acting talents extend far beyond the clowning and double-talk which have become his trademark. In his latest movie, he plays a Polish Jew fleeing the Nazis, and the comedy, while still there, is understandably subdued. His natural humor and warmth are modified by a wistful realism, revealing depth of character which had hitherto been lost among the slapstick...
...Southern neighbors chuckle at his wry, raucous gibes against segregation (TIME, April 1, 1957). What is more, Golden felt perfectly at ease in the old Southern town of Charlotte, his adopted home since 1941, despite the fact that he was no planter's-punch Southerner but rather a Jew from Manhattan's East Side...
...thought (or should); Judgment Day is "that day of wrath, that dreadful day." But the psalmists looked forward to it joyfully. The reason for the difference, says Lewis, is that "the Christian pictures the case to be tried as a criminal case with himself in the dock; the Jew pictures it as a civil case with himself as the plaintiff. The one hopes for acquittal, or rather for pardon; the other hopes for a resounding triumph with heavy damages...
...deal with an intractable old father. The authors obviously thought they were writing the Jewish counterpart of Life With Father, but their play will never have 3183 performances on Broadway. They fell into most of the traps that Schulman avoided in A Hole in the Head. The old Jew was played by Melvyn Douglas, who is having a second career these days by taking on "character" parts; but even he could not make the play ring true...