Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress empowers the executive to enter into negotiations with a view to ascertaining the precise terms for the proposed establishment of a Jewish state...
...sooner was this out of the way than Treasurer Elieser Kaplal of the Zionist Executive Committee blithely presented a scheme to settle 200,000 more Jews in Palestine within the next three years, notwithstanding the fact that the partition scheme promised sharply to check Jewish immigration...
...This project," said Mr. Kaplal "is neither fantastic nor farfetched. In the period from 1932 to 1935, 150,000 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine, bringing their own capital of approximately...
Palestine is far from the only organized settlement of Jewish refugees, although it is by far the most costly and troublesome. A small settlement exists in The Netherlands on land reclaimed from the Zuider Zee. There are others in Czechoslovakia, Russia, South America. Most have followed Palestine in having friction with the previous inhabitants. From Costa Rica last week came word that Refugee Economic Corp. of Manhattan has purchased for a reputed $1 an acre the 50,000-acre Tenorio estate in Guanacosti Province to become a Jewish community where refugees from Nazi Germany may enjoy peace and raise soya...
...epic novelist, certainly no apologist for the rich, Harvey O'Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler...