Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LARGEST SINGLE BLOC of voters in New York City's June 4 mayoral primary are likely to be unyoung, unpoor and Jewish. Jews should make up between 40 and 50 percent of the vote and the way they cast their ballots will probably determine who becomes the Democratic candidate for Mayor...
...York City Jews are losing their New Deal liberalism with alarming speed. Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education and Urban Politics, and Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, argue in Beyond the Melting Pot that a good deal of the growing conservatism of the city's Jewish population is a reaction against the increasing assertiveness of the black population...
Imagine the problem now facing the scared Jewish Grandmother on the Grand Concourse! Most likely she and other moderate-to-conservative Jews will swing into the camp of 67-year-old Comptroller Abe Beame. While Beame's most visible attribute is his 5'2" height, he has the reputation of being a good fiscal manager. While Jews realize that Beame will not talk as tough as Biaggi does, they know that he will at least keep the city in the black...
...other two candidates, Herman Badillo and Al Blumenthal, will probably split the diminishing liberal Jewish vote. Blumenthal has the support of most liberal reform Democrats in Manhattan, but not much else. He has very poor name recognition and no money, so that he can't go on television. Badillo did well with liberal Jews four years ago, but this time lost the support of the reform umbrella group, the New Democratic Coalition. His only hope now is that The New York Times endorsement he recently received will give him a big boost with the liberals...
...Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart's fictional history of Jewish martyrdom, ended poignantly with a lament for the destruction of such communities as the Hasidic shtetls of eastern Europe -- where social rules were joyously, religiously infused with a belief that beneath the moral law lay some ineffable grace. That novel was a sad and bitter tribute to Messianic faith, and its tone was mourning. A Woman Named Solitude is dedicated to fighters, like those people who revolted in the Warsaw ghetto; fighters whose ghosts, we are told, still rise up before the eyes of travelers amidst the ruins...