Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honest opinion that the Toronto [Jewish Congress] handled this "ersatz" problem in a most dignified and rational manner. All persons involved should be congratulated...
...handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to Israel to assume the citizenship (and the presidency) of the Jewish state which he, more than any one man, had helped make a reality. Said he as he landed: "It is good to be home at last...
...sport shirt, pointedly remained seated. The Promised Land which Weizmann had been spared to see was in a sense not his; the tough men-some in army khaki, some in black rabbinical hats-had little patience with the old man who still talked about "the traditional friendship between the Jewish people and Britain...
...satisfied with just having a country of our own. We must prove that we still possess the force that once gave the world moral law and social laws. Our relations with other peoples must be pervaded by the spirit of peace and by the spirit of the Jewish nation which, after a small pause of 2,000 years, has come home...
Shaw's novel has three interweaving plots. Christian Diestl is an Austrian would-be superman who tolerates his Nazi party comrades since they are useful for world conquest; Michael Whitacre is a Broadway character worried about the sordid emptiness of his life; Noah Ackerman is a young Jewish boy confused by modern life but determined to burst through to personal fulfillment...