Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world irate Jews sent cables denouncing them for failing to denounce the Nazi Governor of Berlin, bullet-headed Dr. Julius Lippert, when he addressed the Chamber at luncheon thus: "Economically nothing has happened to the Jews of Germany. Not a single dispossession or destruction of a so-called Jewish enterprise has taken place. If a Jew has proved to the State that he is ready to fulfill all the duties put upon him which every other inhabitant of our Fatherland must fulfill as well, he has equal economic rights...
Every Mayor of New York City is a doughty champion of Jews. Last week like a pudgy panther Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia let himself go to 2,000 members and guests of the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress who had as guest of honor obliging Professor Albert Einstein.* "The indignation of the American people," cried Mayor LaGuardia, "cannot be traded for commerce! And therefore, Dr. Einstein, our attitude is in keeping with the best traditions of our republic. The purpose of the boycott is a protest against an arrogant, bigoted, cruel Government...
Ever a provoking law unto himself, Genius Einstein switched over to the theme that most Jews in Germany "during the past 20 years . . . slavishly copied the still foreign-to-them modes of the life of the German people with the sole purpose of making themselves forget their Jewish origin...
Rapped Genius Einstein with flashing eyes: "For most of the German Jews there existed no international Jewish community. In their own eyes they were Germans and nothing but Germans. . . . How I suffer under this lack of pride and dignity on the part of these German Jews!" (see below...
While a high Nazi official in Berlin was telling the world last week that in Germany today Jews are "economically untouched" (see above), local Nazi satraps got on with their work. In Leipzig, where the famed Fair will be attended this week by no Jewish buyers except the most furtive, Governor Martin Mutschmann of Saxony emotionally declared: "In the dark period when the whole world beset us, the Führer showed the German people the road to the light. He gave this people confidence and created possibilities for work without having to make use of the raw-material resources...