Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dispatch. Young Joseph Pulitzer was a familiar figure in St. Louis, and somewhat alarming, when he founded the Post-Dispatch. Born in Mako, Hungary, in 1847, of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...
Than Stephen Samuel Wise there is no more famed rabbi in the U. S. He has a son, James Waterman Wise. Son Wise is 27. Preparing for the Jewish ministry, in which the preceding seven Wise generations have been engaged, he suddenly recanted after studies at Columbia University and Cambridge...
Died. Theodore Reinach, 68, famed French barrister, historian, archaeologist, Jewish leader, authority on comparative religion, Hellenic literature, brother of Salomon Reinach, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle; in Paris...
Thirty-two also is Jewish Greenblatt. Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson's bad eye and grafting on the peeled ball the good cornea of Jewish Greenblatt's bad eye. The Jew amiably agreed to the graft, the Nordic hopefully received it. And hopefully, with eyes bandaged, they waited for results...
...Jewish half gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...