Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as the campaign moved to Chicago, the real battleground, Mayor Kelly injected religion into it when he cried to some 500 Jewish politicians assembled in the Morrison Hotel: "It will be a sad day in Illinois for the Jews if it is apparent in the face of the election results that the Jews voted for Horner because he is a Jew. . . . When Henry Horner was nominated in 1932 the Irish went to the front for him and they battled side by side with the Jews to elect him. Now we're fighting Horner...
Arrangements have already been made to provide for the orthodox Jewish alumni desiring to attend the Tercentenary Celebration on September 17 and 18 according to Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy. Professor Wolfson has arranged to have early services which will be over by 9 o'clock held in the Semitic Museum's large lecture hall or else in the Chapel of the Divinity School...
Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
...most serious problem which is facing the churches today is to secure the attendance of young people. Expansion can come only through attraction of young people. . . . Not only is this difficulty confronting Protestant churches but the Catholic and Jewish as well. I have noticed that the average attendance . . . nowadays is between 50 and 60 years. That's really serious...
These and similarly alarming statements were seriously set forth in an extraordinary collection of documents exhibited last week in Manhattan by the American Jewish Congress. Billed as "The Literature of Hate," the sordid show was also endorsed by the Catholic weekly Commonweal, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. To attract the curious, the promoters inserted a notice in the New York Times...