Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey's spunkiness delighted rich Jewish Banker Ellice Victor (later Sir Victor) Sassoon, inveterate flying bug, who agreed to back him in a new aviation magazine. In June 1911, Editor Grey brought out the first issue of The Aeroplane. Through several changes of management, many a near-fatal slump, he held the editorial chair. Lately, under the aegis of Temple Press, the magazine boomed...
...Beirut, Lebanon, after a wave of suicide and disease among its 650 passengers. Two others were off the Lebanese coast. The ships were part of the fleet of vessels, mostly run by Rumanians and Greeks, that hovers continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than 15,000 Jewish refugees are estimated to have illegally entered...
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Grapes of Wrath, novels whose characters make social problems look alive have been surefire bestsellers. Right down this fictional alley marches stoop-shouldered old Isaac Emmanuel, drawn to shed much heat and some light on Nazi methods, Jewish refugees...
Bruno Rosenheim, brought to England a child exile after his Jewish father's murder, heard nothing from his mother feared she was either dead or in a concentration camp, tried to drown himself. That made mild-mannered Mr. Emmanuel angry. Armed only with pince-nez, attache case and British passport, he went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter...
Whether he is describing the sick terror in a Berlin Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...