Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these attitudes was expressed several months ago when, talking to a group of Jewish women about Grover Whalen's World's Fair, Fiorello nominated Adolf Hitler for the Fair's chamber of horrors (TIME, Mar. 15). The other attitude is his consistent stand in favor of Labor. Both C.I.O. and A.F. of L. leaders in the city announced themselves for his reelection. The Republican Party may or may not back him, for its leaders have had no favors from him, but the American Labor Party, formed last summer in New York-which succeeded in delivering over...
...Jewish opponents of the British Government's recently announced scheme for the partition of Palestine (TIME, July 19 et ante), last week were holding their fire pending the first debate on the subject in the House of Commons this week...
...Jewish State is to contain nearly all the best and most fruitful land in Palestine and is to have the country's only deep-sea harbor, Haifa. Nevertheless, its relatively small area was a heavy blow last week to Jews who have come to look upon all Palestine as "The Jewish National Home...
...cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
Toward the close of Queen Victoria's reign arose the present agitation to create a Jewish state in Palestine, but for decades the grip of Turkey and therefore of Islam on the land blocked Jewish efforts. The crackup of Germany and her Turkish ally, with General Allenby capturing Jerusalem as a sort of 20th Century Crusader in December 1917, was the decisive moment, because five weeks earlier British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour had made his historic Declaration: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will...