Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace for a Jewish fammily was something unknown when Bloch grew up in Geneva. The community was strongly Gentile, still seething from the Dreyfus affair. In his home Bloch learned Jewish melodies, Jewish lore. There was money enough for him to study for a time in Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris. Then his father's jewelry business soured and he went home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk...
...ride once a week to get to a Los Angeles fencing club where she practices. At Scripps College, Miss Mayer meant to study international law to prepare for a career in the German foreign service. The Hitler regime changed her plans. Her mother is Aryan, her father was a Jewish physician. Helene Mayer has been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club. She hopes nonetheless to fence for the 1936 German Olympic team. Slim, tall, flaxen-haired with charming manners and a smile as bright and sudden as her foil, she speaks English with no accent, an occasional ja. Last week...
...instantly apparent last week that the life of the Jewish member of the Bürgerschaft will not be an easy one. No sooner was the new city charter announced than Heimatschueter, the personal organ of Prince Starhemberg, printed a sharp anti-Semitic attack...
...east was Saturn. So last week pronounced a German wise man, Professor Oswald Gerhardt of Berlin, who had been pursuing it for years. And Jesus Christ was born April 2 in the year 7 B. C., wrote Professor Gerhardt in Forschungen und Fortschreiten (Researches and Progress). According to ancient Jewish and Christian texts, Saturn ruled the Hebrews. The Messiah was expected to arrive under this "Star of God," which was called both Chiun (Amos, 5:26) and Remphan (Acts, 7:43). In Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time of Christ...
Most scholars have concluded that Christ was born late in the year 5 B. C. or the 749th Year of Rome (Anno Urbis Conditae). He could not have been born later because Herod, who sought to have Him slaughtered along with the rest of the Jewish younglings, died the year following. For centuries after Christ's death no one thought to use Anno Domini as the base of a calendar. When the 6th Century monk Dionysius Exiguus finally did so, he made a miscalculation of four to six years which has not yet been rectified...