Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago German Ambassador Hans Luther marched into the State Department in Washington and slapped down a formal protest. In Manhattan the American Jewish Congress, the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis, the Federation of Palestine Jews, the Jewish Legion, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. Young Judaea. Young Poale Zion and many other Semitic organizations were about to put Adolf Hitler on trial as an enemy to civilization. Was not such a proceeding an unfriendly act? Dr. Luther demanded. Undersecretary of State Phillips shrugged his well-tailored shoulders and retorted that free speech still exists in the U. S., that...
...have upwards of 6.000 members; they hold meetings, collect dues, wear Nazi uniforms and sometimes drill in turnhallen; members of the League of Friends of the New Germany pledge: "I do not belong to any secret organization of any kind [Freemasons, etc.]. I am of Aryan descent, free of Jewish or colored racial traces"; their political ideal "is organically conceived and consequently the very antithesis of liberal Democratic ideas. Believing in the authority of leadership . . . we advocate a state of truly sovereign authority which dominates all the forces of the nation...
...Shatter'd Lamp is helped through some awkward soliloquies by intelligent performances, notably the hollow-eyed acting of Effie Shannon. She plays the Jewish wife of mild, aryan, pacifist Professor Opal (Guy Bates Post) who teaches in a Bavarian university. Their son Karl (Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau...
...Housewives, Student, and Clerical occupations. The protestant faith led in religious affiliations with 70 per cent of the males and 75 per cent of the females, while the percentages of Catholics were 15 and 13 per cent respectively, and of Jews 14 and 10. This is a remarkably high Jewish showing when compared with the total percentage of Jews in America...
...German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs on what was then known as Jew Street was the ancestral home of the Rothschilds (see p. 20). The Frankfort air was heavy with money. When Jacob Henry Schiff arrived in Manhattan the year the Civil...