Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidence of famine conditions continues to reach the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and Jewish rabbis in Central Europe in a wealth of letters penned by underfed Russian peasants to relatives abroad. Of these letters Soviet censors catch perhaps eight or nine out of every ten; but stupid, lenient or secretly anti-Red censors pass enough to make chronic malnutrition in the Soviet farm belt an imposing fact. For people who want to see starved and starving Russians, Cameraman Walker opened his portfolio last week. Samples...
Thus Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement which culminates the ten penitential days after Rosh Hashanah (New Year). Yom Kippur falls next on Oct. 7. Last week U. S. Christians were pondering a proposal that they join with 4,000,000 U. S. Jews in celebrating this high holy day. Proposer: Rev. Charles D. Brodhead of Bethlehem, Pa., who said, "In this period of widespread anti-Semitic pressure it would be a timely witness to our common religious bond with...
...vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro New York News: "Colored America demands that civilization does not permit Italy to precipitate a world race war by invading Abyssinia. . . . Let civilization beware." To acting General Secretary A. W. Berry...
Coos & Bombs-In foreign policy Herr Hitler's cleverness characteristically exhibits itself by eschewing the blatant, bellicose tone with which he delights Germans. It was no mean feat for Der Reichs-fűhrer to achieve last week a declaration so mild that it was buried by the Jewish-sympathizing New York Times on page four...
CALL IT SLEEP-Henry Roth-Ballon ($2.50). A first novel, the story of three years in the life of a sensitive Jewish slum-child, told with painstaking and pain-giving fidelity to slum dialect, slum neuroses. Non-Fiction...