Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riding Hood." But then perhaps the possibilities are limited. They are, indeed, between the Grossian and Burbigian dialects. As one well versed in the variations of 'English as she is spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage and that he learned his English somewhere in Amsterdam Ave. As a result the pristine purity of the true Yiddish-English, a dialect to delight the heart of the connoiseur, is lost...
...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...
...growing magnificence of the money-changers has by no means smothered religion in the Wall Street district. Only last week a new orthodox Jewish synagog opened its doors there for the first time. The synagog is merely an office building room given by Benjamin E. Greenspan, a lawyer. Some day he hopes to build a fitting edifice on the roof of one of the skyscrapers. Once indifferent to religion, Lawyer Greenspan found fresh faith two years ago when his eldest daughter miraculously escaped Death. Thereafter he prayed during every office day. Last week more than 100 Jews went...
...eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute Jewish criminal lawyer offered Miss Inescort a job on his staff. Another episode of the tour: at Detroit, though he did not appear at a performance. Henry Ford mended the Inescort watch...
Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...