Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also served in Tunisia, where his major function was rounding up 81,000 Jews for forced labor under inhuman conditions. During the war, Rauff proved himself able in economic matters as well. He managed to extort, for the German government, a "fine" of 20 million francs from the French Jewish community...
There is a cell of Jewish and Communist extraction which has come to lord it over Chile in the infamous alliance of the misnamed Popular Unity government...
...Israel, Kissinger's plane was scheduled to land at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport a half-hour before the Jewish Sabbath was over. Israeli protocol officers advised the blue and white jet to circle somewhere until the holy day officially ended...
...Reed can hardly be accused of eye rolling and cakewalking for his supper. His angers and resentments are sheathed in intelligence, learning, scatological wit and showmanship. One thinks of Redd Foxx before he was San-fordized, or Philip Roth confronting his middle-class American Jewish background in ways that have been judged, perhaps too hastily, as self-hateful and tasteless. Likewise, many blacks may find themselves both amused and offended by The Last Days of Louisiana Red, a combination circus freak show, detective story, Negro Dead Sea Scroll and improvised black-studies program...
...1920s with a stentorian narration by Actor Brock Peters, is the most traditional of the group. It struggles to compress a decade of black his tory into 30 minutes, and still man ages to repeat itself. Film Editor Mirra Banks' Yudie is a loving cameo of her Jewish aunt, observant and a little mel ancholy. An Old-Fashioned Woman offers a mellow and admiring portrait of Documentary Director Martha Coolidge's Grandmother, a redoubtable 86-year-old Yankee. She not only reminisces and airs her views on birth control and abortion (she is for both), but considers...