Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from this certainly undeserved accusation. No one desires to place the British in this uncomfortable position of resting under anyone's thumb. It is true that Jews and Zionists throughout the world would like the British to fulfill the obligations which they have contracted in the matter of the Jewish national home, and for which they are responsible to the League of Nations and to the United States. Unfortunately, Great Britain has seen fit to disregard largely these obligations and to place obstacles in the way of the Jewish settlement in Palestine...
...problems still awaiting solution is that of facilitating the settlement in Palestine of millions of Jews, pushed out of their countries of residence by economic or by official pressure, and of permitting them to live there in conditions of safety and self-respect. That this solution of the Jewish problem would be eminently just, has been acknowledged after the war by all civilized countries, including the United states (Sec: U. S. Department of State; Mandate for Palestine, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1927). Since then, the situation of the Jews in Europe became more, not less, critical, and their actual...
...true that Jewish settlement has remarkably progressed in face of an indifferent world and of a hostile administration, and that the Jewish population has increased from about 50,000 in 1920 to about 350,000 in 1935. But with millions of Jews of Eastern and Central Europe facing economic starvation at best and physical extermination at worst, the progress achieved is only a slight beginning. Jews did and are doing all in their power to facilitate the gigantic task of finding a new home for millions, but this task can be only carried out if the British administration will cease...
...grievances. One concerns the denial of self-government institutions. As a matter of fact, country-wide elections for a Legislative Council were held by the administration as early as 1923, but the Arab population abstained from voting, demanding an open repudiation by Great Britain of its obligations concerning the Jewish national home. That far even the British administration, despite its anti-Zionist attitude, was not prepared...
...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...