Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewry's answer to Ferdinand & Isabella was to declare in 1492 a Jewish boycott of Spain which was still in effect last week. For 443 years Orthodox Jews have eschewed trading with Spain or felt twinges of conscience for doing so. Last week in Warsaw the hoary Boycott of Spain was ended at last for Polish Jews by their Rabbinate...
...Jewish] ban against Spain was not against the Spanish people but against the evil rulers of Spain in the 15th Century," ruled Poland's Rabbinate. "Therefore the boycott is no longer valid at present, when the Jews are treated like everyone else by the Spanish Government...
...fourth-raters. Several minor victories in a row brought Braddock's name up for discussion this winter in the heavyweight elimination tournament currently being conducted by Madison Square Garden Corp. He received the unexpected honor of being judged worthy of testing the qualifications of a promising young Jewish heavyweight named Art Lasky, whose handlers have been grooming him carefully for a bout with Champion Max Baer...
...last grievance is to the effect that Jewish immigration has brought about poverty and unemployment among the Arabs. Coming from a man who had personal experience of Palestine, this grievance is hard to understand: it is, indeed, notorious that standard of life, wages, conditions of labor among the Palestinian Arabs have increased increased enormously owing to the Jewish influx and example, while they have remained almost stationary in the other countries of the Near East. Even unemployment among the Arabs (largely existing in the villages and antedating the Jewish immigration) has, if anything, shown a tendency to decrease...
...writer realizes that, being an Arab, Mr. Antonius may be expected to present that case for the Arab opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine with a certain amount of justifiable bias. He hopes however, that the enlightened public opinion of the world at large, which shows so much sympathy toward the efforts of the Arab people to organize its life in politically free communities in the enormous areas of Arabia, Egypt, Irak, and Syria, and to progress there economically and culturally, will show an equal sympathy toward the efforts of the Jewish people to attain an analogous development in Palestine...