Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest wordiest woman to break loose and bring out the banner is Erica Jong--poet (Fruits and Vegetables, Half Lives), New Yorker (she lives on the same Manhattan block where she grew up), middle class, Jewish. Erica Jong has written a medley of a book, something of a cross between a True Confessions of a Feminist--How Tough it Is and a Portnoy's Complaint. The book is probably meant to be the new monument to the movement. It's got everything: woman as Oedipus, masochist, narcissist, feminist; woman as hostage of her fears, her fantasies, her false definitions; woman...
Controversy also upset the effort. Taking the evangelical rhetoric too literally, Jews were initially incensed by the "Christian America" overtones of the campaign. But Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, one of the most vehement critics, conceded later that the fracas had actually promoted better Jewish-Christian understanding of evangelism...
...Okhrana (the Czarist secret police) in the disguise of a Bolshevik revolutionary-thus reinforcing the suspicions of several Western scholars. Gulag also says that Stalin planned a large-scale "massacre" of Jews that was thwarted by his death in 1953. In that year the arrest of several Jewish physicians, accused of plotting to assassinate high government officials, unleashed a wave of antiSemitism...
Writes Solzhenitsyn: "According to Moscow rumors, Stalin's plan was this: at the beginning of March, 1953, the 'doctor-murderers' were to be hanged on Red Square. Aroused patriots, naturally led by instructors, were to rush off to in cite an anti-Jewish pogrom. And at this point . . . the government would intervene generously to save the Jews from the wrath of the people. On that very same night it would remove them from Moscow to the Far East and Siberia, where barracks were already prepared for them...
...Monday he took off (for Israel). On Tuesday, in this popular mystery series, Rabbi David Small is back with his congregation in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. A colleague who is also going to Israel recommends Small as his replacement teacher of a course in Jewish philosophy at a nearby college. He begins his academic side career with customary zeal. When a bomb goes off in the dean's office, apparently killing a faculty member, the police first arrest student radicals, then a dissident Jewish professor. Using his Talmudic method of looking at a problem from...