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Born in 1894, in an era of sanctioned pogroms, Babel did not need to see his father in the mud to have a firsthand knowledge of the ordeal of a Russian Jew. In The Story of My Dovecot, Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face...
...Shakespeare (1564). He was the son of a Canterbury shoemaker, but records show that he was a brilliant student. He won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Young Marlowe, as everyone agrees, translated Ovid, wrote poems and plays (Hero and Leander, Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta). Records indicate that he was a homosexual and an outspoken atheist, also suggest that he was a secret agent of Queen Elizabeth's government. In 1593, a long charge of atheistic crimes was drawn up against Marlowe, but before he could be brought to trial (if such...
...wonderful feeling when I go to Mass every Sunday to know that 400 million other people are worshiping as I am-united as one body, worshiping one God"). After him came Sophomore Judy Sklar. who bluntly announced: "I am an American and a Jew and I am very proud to be both." "What does the Negro want?" asked Negro Graduate Student Nathan Huggins. "If there is any single answer I think it lies in the definition of the word dignity." And so it went through other speeches and an hour-long question period afterward. Much to his own surprise...
Orchids for Dinner. Einstein was happy in Germany under the Weimar Republic. He supported 100 poor families in Berlin, sailed his boat and played the violin. But when Hitler came, Einstein the Jew was badgered by the Brownshirts and finally driven into exile. He was offered a lifetime post in the cloistered School for Advanced Studies, and in 1933 he took up residence in Princeton. Quickly and unwillingly, he became a living legend...
Feeney told the editor, "I always try to be fair with everyone, but the CRIMSON has not been fair with me. The other day, some CRIMSON photographers took pictures of my building, and one of them was a Jew--and he admitted it ... Get out of here...