Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews have justly complained for decades that they never have been able to get justice in hard-boiled little Rumania. Last week the fat was in the fire as His Majesty Carol II behaved again not like a Rumanian but like an infatuated Gentile with a fascinating Jewish friend, Mme Magda Lupescu...
Lucius N. Littauer '78, donor of $2,000,000 for the establishment of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration has presented the University with 2,283 rare works of Hebrew Literature from the H. G. Enelow Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, it was announced last night...
Since Der Führer dosed the Fatherland with his anti-Jewish purge, German Jews from Scientist Einstein down to the small-town sausagemaker have been kicked around. Prime exception has been 47- year-old German Jew Arnold Bernstein, head of Arnold Bernstein Line, Red Star Line and Palestine Shipping Co. Hitler, during his four years of dictatorship, has paternally patted Mr. Bernstein's head, graciously welcomed his contributions to German trade. Loudly cheered by Nazis was Jew Bernstein for elaborately equipping "garage ships" and docks with high-speed elevators, enabling cars to be transported at big savings. Loudly...
...Kindly (by Sara Sandberg ; Richard Skinner & Hope Lawder, producers, in association with Aldrich & Myers) is an inoffensive, ineffectual comedy of family life on Manhattan's prosperous West Side. Its appeal is addressed squarely to Manhattan's prosperous Jewish theatre-goers who for some reason are always amused when they see their kind depicted as sentimental, hysterical money-worshippers. The story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished...
...Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...