Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison and exile for the smuggling abroad of his book, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-largely because the answer was an emphatic no. Last week Amalrik agreed to leave the Soviet Union and accept a permanent exit visa to Israel, although neither he nor his wife are Jewish. A tough and often eccentric loner, Amalrik yielded after nearly a year of harassment that began after his release. After finding the pressures "intolerable," he decided to accept the Soviet government's longstanding offer to give him a visa to Israel-but nowhere else. His decision, he said...
...condemned South Africa as a "deplorable regime of racial discrimination." When Israel later decided to give money to black liberation movements, the Pretoria government retaliated by blocking contributions to Israel from South Africa's 130,000 Jews, who are, after their U.S. counterparts, the most generous overseas Jewish group...
...impressive new book, Irving Howe has chosen to remember. Howe, the editor of Dissent, and a third generation East European himself, has written the story of how the "bedraggled and inspired" Jewish immigrants lost a heritage and found a home on New York's lower East Side. World of Our Fathers revitalizes what are by now the familiar details of the unspeakable slums of East Broadway, the feverish Jewish labor movement, the lively culture of Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake...
...FIRST GENERATION of East Europeans to come to America were innocents. Some arrived de-classed and displaced; others were energetic, vigorous, ambitious. Almost all of them were young and believed that they could maintain their personal vision of religious tradition and the cohesion of the Jewish community in the midst of American society. But the sheer facts of life on the East Side overwhelmed them. The interminable hours in the sweatshops, families crowded six to a room in the tenements, the growth of crime and near epidemics of dysentery, typhoid and tuberculosis, the "tailor's disease," seemed to reflect...
...streets are enveloped in an undefinable atmosphere, which reflects the unique light, or shadow, of its Jewish inhabitants. The air itself seems to have absorbed the unique Jewish sorrow and pain, an emanation of its thousands of years of exile. The sun, gray and depressed; the men and women clustered around the pushcarts; the gray walls of the tenements--all looks...