Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steps into a phone booth to emerge a new man, a super-Cuomo. Outflanking the opposition, he has come out in favor of the death penalty, thus cutting into the rich vein of blue-collar Catholic votes--a vein Cuomo, by right of birth, should be tapping. With the Jewish vote comfortably in his pocket (thanks to such stunts as his celebrated letter of protest to President Carter after the Administration's declaration of support for Palestinian rights), he then goes after the business vote, tilting with the powerful municipal unions--a group, oddly enough, that opposed him bitterly...
...solution of the problem of the Arab refugees and of the Jewish refugees will be discussed in accordance with terms to be agreed upon...
...reality, it was not a political tour at all, in the usual sense, but the first leg of the Moshe Dayan road show to Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Ostensibly, Israel's Foreign Minister was raising money for the United Jewish Appeal; in fact, he was mobilizing support for Israel in its latest spat with...
...sensitively captures Julia's evolution from a headstrong stylish socialist to a committed antifascist who sacrifices her life not on impulse but after careful consideration. Hellman's character is relatively more static, and when she risks her life by smuggling funds for Julia's group into Germany-- Hellman is Jewish--we are never sure whether she is acting out of political commitment, love for Julia, or simply because she was afraid to display cowardice by refusing her friend's plea. In fact, if the details of Hammett's imprisonment and both writers' blacklisting during the McCarthy era were not well...
...Peretz and the Flowering of Secular Jewish Culture"--Phillips Brooks Parlor...