Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore churchmen did some hard thinking about the case and last week published a statement signed by 116 Protestant, Jewish and Quaker leaders. "In the tragedy that occurred in Carroll Park . . ." said the statement, "we see evidence of our common failure and sin. We humbly admit that part of the blame is ours...
...scrolls in the U.S. also include the complete Book of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habbakuk, and a manual of discipline for a minor Jewish sect. Scholars predict that complete analysis and translation of the scrolls will take many years. In order that experts all over the world may take part in this interpretive work, detailed photographs of the ancient scrolls so far unrolled have been made available by the American School of Oriental Studies...
Notably of the mine run is Harold Robbins' The Dream Merchants, which begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...
...audience of almost 100 heard the Catholic clergyman say that "the walls of the spiritual ghetto are crumbling." Father Oesterreicher, himself a convert from Judaism, said that "leading Jewish scholars" are now discussing Christ...
...King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside...