Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abruptly the Jewish organ Danziger Echo was suspended for ten months. The only other Opposition organ still appearing, the Catholic Volkszeitung, was wiped out for printing a letter from Danzig Bishop Edward O'Rourke in which he wrote: "The Senate has made war on all the Free City's Christians. I appeal to all Catholics to rally around the clergy...
Herod was of desert stock, an Idumean, traditionally pagan in the Jewish world. He became king of Judea principally through the intrigues of his father, Antipater, who had been active in fomenting civil war in Palestine in the hope of securing Roman intervention. At that time Pompey, on a triumphal march from Armenia back to Rome, stopped to add to his laurels by putting Judea under Roman domination, left Antipater the real power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots...
...hating Publisher Paul Block last week in a signed editorial in which he tried to bring religion into the campaign by asserting that President Roosevelt had drafted New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to run for re-election in an effort to snare the State's Jewish vote...
...Democratic whispering campaign against both him and Governor Landon had been in progress for three weeks. In the East Jews were being told that he and the Governor were anti-Semites. In the West anti-Semites were being told that the Governor's middle name, Mossman, proved his Jewish descent...
...Providence the Zionists adopted a resolution demanding arms for Palestine Jews, another condemning Jewish Communists for inciting disorder in the homeland. Then they adjourned, many of them still marveling that they had managed to elect Rabbi Wise their leader. That head of Manhattan's Free Synagog has a large collection of enemies and critics, most of them Jews who dislike the American Jewish Congress, of which he is president. Dedicated to the principle of holding periodic World Jewish Congresses, the U. S. group elected delegates last month who in Geneva next month will probably elect Rabbi Wise their world...