Word: jewes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born 71 years ago in a small town in Bessarabia, Bronstein grew up as an Orthodox Jew. He came to the U.S. at 22 to work in a Baltimore sweatshop with his brothers, began to take free English lessons at a Baptist church. Soon he was reading the New Testament as well as the Old. One day he came home and told his young Russian wife that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. She was horrified, contemplated divorce. "Next day, after his father came home from the synagogue," says she. "I told...
...dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window. There are everywhere fears, self-doubts, deep-hidden voids; something gnaws at the chatterbox sister, drills against the dentist's heart, suddenly blows up in an adolescent Jew...
...rich Mexican revolutionary, Rivera liked to deny his aristocratic beginnings and Spanish blood. "I am one-third Indian, one-third Jew and one-third nobody knows-probably Chinese," he liked to say, with a fine disregard of the arithmetic of genealogy. As a student he worked in Paris along the lines suggested by his friends Picasso and Braque...
Hitler drove him out of Germany because he was a Jew, Otto Klemperer fell over backwards when a railing gave way during a rehearsal, striking his head at the base of the skull. For six years he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but a brain tumor developed and an operation in 1939 left him paralyzed on his right side...
...Jesus was a mild Jewish reformer who was primarily interested in social revolution . . . But somewhere around the middle of the first century a Jew named Paul of Tarsus got converted to the movement and right away proceeded to get it all fouled up with theological nonsense. He made Jesus out to be the hero of a mystery religion, and went around preaching the gospel that all men could be assured of a niche in Heaven if they would only accept him as Lord and Savior...