Word: jewishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With this broad purpose, he has provided the opportunity to hundreds of young men and women for higher education toward professional and social betterment careers. In 1925 he established the Nathan Littauer Professorship of Jewish Literature and Philosophy at Harvard
...Nazi leader of Franconia, famed Julius Streicher, Boss of Nürnberg and pal of Adolph Hitler, came out with a ringing demand: "The new laws for the protection of German racial purity must be extended to dolls and wax figures. It is an insult to German womanhood that Jewish children should play with dolls having German faces. The Jews must be forced to manufacture dolls with definitely...
Hebraic features for Jewish children and similar Hebraic figures for showing off clothes in the windows of Jewish shops." Next day Jews received another blow from Germans as distinguished from Nazis. Ousted from their eight stock exchanges were all Jewish floor brokers by order of the German Old Guard's Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
Died. Bernard Seymour Deutsch, 51, president of New York's Board of Aldermen and onetime (1929-March 1935) president of the American Jewish Congress; suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; at his home in The Bronx. Mr. Deutsch became active in politics in 1932, was elected to office on the Fusion ticket the following year. By his death Tammany Hall regains control of the Board of Estimate...
...sweetheart in his home town three exercise books filled with bad verse, which he soon afterward denounced as "all flat and formless in feeling; nothing natural about them; everything up in the air." The poet was Karl Heinrich Marx, stocky, dark-haired, active son of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer from the Rhineland town of Trier. His 22-year-old sweetheart was Jenny von Westphalen, close friend of his older sister, daughter of a highly-placed official whose family had won its title for military service in the Seven Years War. Disliking the university, Marx signed up for lectures...