Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famine a myth (TIME, Sept. 11). Moscow correspondents, denied free access to the areas in question at the time, were inclined to conclude from later visits that some starvation there had been. Driving ahead in Vienna, Cardinal Innitzer, just before Christmas, secured the adoption by an informal congress of Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic churchmen from all over Europe of a resolution which was being printed into pamphlets last week, along with His Eminence's more gruesome pictures. Excerpts: "In spite of all efforts to minimize and deny that catastrophic starvation condi tions ravaged the Soviet Union...
...anti-Nazi efforts further on a non-sectarian plane, Gentile James G. McDonald, the League of Nations' recently appointed High Commissioner for German Refugees, exhorted U. S. citizens last week as follows: "The crime against the Jews [in Germany] is committed in the name of Christianity. The non-Jewish people of America have a real responsibility to show the world that they are not parties to such persecution. They can show that by their help and aid when it is asked in the next few weeks or next few months. Non-Jews have a responsibility in this matter that...
...Formerly the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights...
...very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler's music man, asking him to "help mend the broken threads between Germany and the rest of the world." And when Yehudi refused unless the ban was raised against Bruno Walter and other Jewish musicians, Furtwängler had replied, "It will be your fault if music goes to the dogs in Germany...
...factory to choose her own pianos for a cross-country tour starting this week in Hartford. She was Myra Hess who does not go in for publicizing herself like most musicians. She does not assume that anyone is interested in the fact that she grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in London, started playing the piano when she was five, stuck to it because for her there seemed no other life...