Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappeared and who had apparently, for the most part fled abroad, are again appearing in German theatres. ... It must not come to this, that the public takes to self-help to defend itself. . . ." To make the pronouncement plainer, Dr. Goebbels' newspaper, Der Angriff, published an article which flayed Jewish actors in general and Elizabeth Bergner in particular. When the picture opened, there was a mob of uniformed Nazis in the street outside the Capitol Theatre. In the lobby were police to help ticket holders through the door. The first performance, except for a few eggs smashed on billboards, passed...
Hearing lectures and sermons in "signs" and watching choristers "sign" their hymns in unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia...
...German-Jew who had taken U. S. citizenship, the other to a Christian of good family. Martin, a solid businessman, had also married a Christian; his only son Berthold was the family pride. When the Nazis began their climb to power the Oppermanns saw that the anti-Jewish propaganda might have some temporary effect on business. First storm-warning was the advent of a new master at Berthold's school, famed both for its sound scholarship and liberal atmosphere. The new master, a Nazi, disapproved of liberalism, disliked Jews, hated anyone who poked fun at the pompous rodomontades...
Last Thursday he was granted a hearing on May 1, of his petition for discharge on the grounds that he will not receive a fair trial in Germany because of his Jewish faith...
Having finished his new book, an introduction tot he Jews entitled "How Odd of God", Lewis Browne has left the proof reading to his publishers and gone off to the South Seas to forget all about the "Jewish problem". I want to go some place", he writes, "Where no one wears brown shirts, or silver ones, or indeed any shirts at all." He expects to spend several weeks cruising in Polynesia, and will return in time to keep a series of lecture engagements in the last of April...