Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once all Jewish marriages were arranged by parents. Actual negotiations, including the all-important dowry provided by the bride's family, were handled by shadchonim-marriage brokers. Today only old-fashioned Orthodox Jews patronize the shadchen. Simplified by the emancipation of Jewish youth, his job consists in bringing together couples in a marrying mood, taking a commission (usually 5%) on the dowry...
...Most Jewish men today wait until they have passed 35 and feel secure before marrying, said Rabbi Wolf. Conversely, girls as young as 15 seek husbands. Likewise, older kalles knock at least a dozen years off their age. "If a lady has real love affairs," observed the rabbi, "she never has to go to a marriage broker...
CROWELL, has added the first full length biography of Mendelsohn to its rapidly growing library of the lives of interesting people. The story of the musician's struggles against his professional antagonists in Berlin and against his position as a man born in the Jewish faith is dramatically and interestingly told by Schirma Kaufman one of the younger members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Kaufman has especially shown a sympathetic understanding of the minor details of the musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish faith and its consequent reaction after becoming protestant, and the guiding spirit of the great Goothe with a comprehensive touch which can only be given by a writer who knows his subject
...late great Marcus Loew, Jewish fur dealer who became a tycoon in the cinema world...