Word: jewishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent a group of antiterrorist experts to Beirut to discuss ways of curbing political violence with a P.L.O. security team. The Israelis saw the move as a first step toward diplomatic recognition. In June the European Community took a strong stand against Israel's policy of establishing new Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Then in mid-July, Arafat flew to Vienna to hold talks with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and West German Social Democratic Party Chairman Willy Brandt. Again the Israelis blamed Bonn for countenancing the courtesy. Next month, in either Kuwait or Paris, the European Community will...
...natural choice. At 50, Wiesel has the bearing and diction of an Old Testament prophet. His books and many articles are scrolls of agony, depicting as pects of the Jewish tragedy of the '30s and '40s that, in his view, "blighted and still blights civilization...
...survivor of Auschwitz could find no consolation. Behind great glass containers the story of the prisoners was presented in mute detail: a room of human hair, to be used by the Reich for textiles; a room of confiscated Jewish prayer shawls. Commission members could see the gas chambers near by, but what no one could see, except the survivors in their minds' eyes, was the process of selection that led to death. A former prisoner testified in an Auschwitz guidebook: "During the selection of children, the SS men had placed a rod at the height of 1.20 meters. Children...
...Poland, Wiesel met again and again with government officials to try to persuade them to share materials and records of Polish Jewry that they had withheld for almost 40 years. Repeatedly he managed to gain concessions. Exhausted, as lean as a Giacometti sculpture, Wiesel walked through the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, past the forest of neglected tombstones, until he found one that seemed to summarize his mission: the carved figure of a man who died in 1943, holding in his hand the final symbol of the ghetto struggle, a grenade...
...blood," on the memorial wreath presented by the commission. Oddly, it was two non-Jews who did most to recollect the past. In his great poem, Babi Yar, Yevgeni Yevtushenko reminded his countrymen back in 1961, "I stand terror-stricken. Today I am as ancient in years as the Jewish people themselves are ... I myself am like an endless soundless cry, over these thousands and thousands of buried ones." Eighteen years later, Black Activist Bayard Rustin stood before a vast assemblage of commissioners and Soviet sightseers and sang the spiritual that once nurtured Martin Luther King...