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Word: jewishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobnailed dictator but a silky Jewish intellectual of the Leon Trotsky type is Socialist French Premier Léon Blum. Smart Paris wiseacres guessed last week that Blum's shock at the killing of Nava, chine caused him to remonstrate by telegraph with Joseph Stalin, perhaps accounted for the unexpected action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalin, Navachine & Blum | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Harold M. Hays, Episcopalian brother of the Jewish civil libertarian, Arthur Garfield Hays, operates two private hospitals in Manhattan. He also is an otolaryngologist of note and gets many cases referred to him from other physicians. "It is possible that as many as 60% to 70% of the 14,000 doctors in the metropolitan area are engaged in this pernicious practice of splitting fees. Best evidence we have of this is the vote taken last month by the Kings County Medical Society, when 579 out of 770 doctors voted against establishing a law to stop the practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor on Dichotomy | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...wandering boy comes home with a wife, Ruth (Tamara), a beautiful Jewish radical and labor agitator. It is not long before she ousts the old-line labor bosses in the local mill, organizes a strike. The mill owner (Clyde Fillmore) is tough, too. He imports a gang of scabs and arms 20 deputized thugs with machine guns to protect them. Ruth's crowd also has machine guns and the streets are just about ready to run with his fellow citizens blood when Druggist Cogswell gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...modernism and Americanism. It was aware that enemies, in and out of Jewry, use the word "assimilation" as an insult, an accusation that Reform seeks to un-Jew the Jew. So the Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish music only, and resume use of the ancient Kiddush, a blessing before the evening meal to proclaim the holiness of the Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reform Unreformed? | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Lutheran version. "Jewland" takes the place of the original "Judea" and this "Jewland" is carefully distinguished from the province of Galilee, where Christ preached. The implication is that this was not in "Jewland." Throughout the new Gospel it is implied that Christ and His disciples were not Jews. Jewish names such as "Elijah" and "Isaiah" are omitted, replaced by "prophets." "Rabbi," as applied to Christ, becomes "Master." Christ, according to Bishop Weidemann, shared the "German Christians' " contempt for the Old Testament because it is Jewish in flavor. Example, St. John, Chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Gospel According to Saint Hitler | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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