Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overnight the Rothermere retreat from Mosley gave pause to the maker of Britain's snorting little Morris cars. Lord Nufneld, formerly Sir William Morris, reputedly a heavy contributor to Sir Oswald's Fascist war chest. In a letter to The Jewish Chronicle Lord Nufneld announced that he had just given ?250 ($1.250) to the British fund for refugees from Nazidom and roundly declared: "I never subscribed to the Fascist movement nor supported it in any way; neither have I the least antipathy toward the Jewish race. It occurs to me that the best means of evidencing the foregoing...
FOUR GENERATIONS?Naomi Jacob?Macmillan ($2.50). Anglo-Jewish family novel, earnest but not first-rate...
...Chancellor by an abrupt decree widened the powers of Economics Minister Dr. Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures...
...Jewish congregation wishes a cantor (chazzan) to sing hymns and prayers in the synagog. The rabbi finds a likely prospect, persuades him to try out by singing for nothing during Saturday service. Afterwards the crafty rabbi sends the cantor away as unsatisfactory. The next Saturday the rabbi offers another cantor an audition, sends him away, too, to be followed by another and another, so long as gullible cantors can be found for free Saturday singing tests...
This racket was described last week at a conference in Manhattan of the Jewish Ministers' Cantors' Association. A resolution was passed to boycott guilty synagogs. Cantor Martin Adolf of Paterson, N. J., chairman of the conference, declared that cantors are Forgotten Men. Said he: "The cantor, who by the grace of God is an artist, has always been considered as the pillar of fire in the synagog. He has the ability with the rays of his voice to create light and joy when Israel is left in darkness. . . . When the whole world was engaged in speculation to gain...