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...Haas was a Jew, and the case against him rested more on the emotion of prejudice than the reason of evidence. The motion picture does not have to deviate in the least from the actual case in showing how Haas suffered for a crime he had not committed, just as Alfred Dreyfus had earlier in France...
...lived on the wrong side of the tracks in Milwaukee. So look what I am now and what I've got. Nobody ever told me I couldn't do it. Nobody ever oppressed me. And look at the story itself-an Italian immigrant, created by a Jew and played by an Irisher [J. Carrol Naish]. It's wonderful-amazing...
...April issue of the Jewish monthly Commentary, Author Herberg says that the synagogues have benefited from a new pride felt by U.S. Jews in their faith. During the past two decades, the horror of the Nazi persecution and the triumph of the new state of Israel "have helped reverse the trend toward assimilation." To identify themselves with Jewish culture, Herberg suggests, more & more U.S. Jews have turned to the synagogues: "America does know a free variety and plurality of religions, and it is as a member of a religious group that the great mass of Americans understand the status...
Herberg finds the divisions in contemporary Judaism insignificant compared to "the great gulf that today separates the synagogue as a whole from the vital areas of Jewish life." Though there are nearly 5,000,000 U.S. Jews, no more than 1,500,000-less than a third-"have even the remotest connection with the synagogue." And most of these, says Herberg, find the center of their interest as Jews not in religious but in secular concerns such as "Zionism, labor unionism, philanthropy, social service, 'anti-defamation.' . . . Religion is, in fact, often regarded as a kind of leisure-time...
...effect of terrible danger on the emotions of love and loyalty, and more particularly on the feeling of Jewishness. The most important symbol of the book is used here with the edge of irony. The Wall which the Germans had built around the Ghetto to keep the Jews in-to separate the Jews from the Gentile-has a parallel in the spiritual wall between the Jew and gentile. The irony lies in the fact that the Jews built the physical wall with their own hands in the German labor battalions, just as they are partly responsible for the other wall...