Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde, blue-eyed Ava was Jewish but she passed herself off as a Catholic. She was sent by the Germans to work in a Viennese shirt factory, where she precariously waited out the war. In July 1947, she was brought to the U.S. by the United Service for New Americans. She found work in a bank, lived in a lonely furnished room in Brooklyn, knocked on many doors in search of Anna Sobel...
...Garden, No Fish. Dr. Waksman, often called the dean of U.S. researchers in antibiotics, was born of Jewish parents in Priluki, a Russian peasant village near Kiev. He came to the U.S. at 22. In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went...
Cowboys & Indians. Until last May, Akir's baked-mud huts were inhabited by some 500 Arab families who worked the nearby vineyards and orange groves, occasionally sniped at a passing Jewish convoy. As the Jewish troops approached, most Arab families fled, the rest were chased out. Today Akir is a community of 300 Jewish families from Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania and Yemen. These new inhabitants have moved in to stay...
Where the road widens slightly to make Akir's village square, Jewish children romped around a gnarled sycamore tree last week, playing a popular game, the local version of cowboys & Indians; it is called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section...
...percent of the receipts will go to the United Jewish Appeal, 5 percent to local agencies, and 10 percent to American and European Jewish charities...