Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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emphasize that in reality not a hair of any Jewish head has been touched...
...prisoners had to be protected by the National Guard from the mobs of Southern gentlemen bent on indulging themselves in a lynching or burning party. When it was bruited about Dixle that Negroes were on the stand for the rape of white women, and were being defended by a Jewish lawyer who belonged to the International Labor Defense, a Communist-affiliated organization, it was plain enough which way the verdict was due to fall. It was a foregone conclusion that the attempt to get at least one negro on the panel would fail...
Though Jewry has given the world many a magnum opus, including Christendom's best-known book, few true-blue Jewish novels aim at or succeed in putting Christian readers in a state of grace. Solal does just that; it is a wild, melodramatic romance, stuffed with grotesque comedy, Old Testament lamentations, sensual psalms, shrewd cynicism and shrewder kindliness, ending finally in pure parable. When Solal appeared in Paris in 1930, even the French literary press sputtered : "A great Jewish novel . . . a great book . . . tumultuous . . . explosive . . . overbrimming...
...Solal of the Solals, Jewish boy of the Greek island of Cephalonia, were pinned all the resigned but aspiring hopes of his tribe. His rabbi father, head of the Solals and No. 1 Jew of the colony, brought up his beloved only son to be a good Jew. Little old Uncle Saltiel worshiped him, his disreputable cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people. But young Solal's fatal beauty kindled passion in Adrienne, Gentile wife of the French consul. Discovered, they fled to Italy. Old Uncle Saltiel, sent after them...
Solal founded a political newspaper: power and riches poured into his hands. Aude adored her husband until she discovered his secret: he had transported the Jewish colony of Cephalonia to the cellars of his princely château. Daytimes he was a tycoon and a Cabinet Minister; at night he reverted to the wailing Jew. Aude was horrified and left him. Then Solal abandoned everything for her-faith, riches, power-and became a renegade, but her love for him was dead. He went downhill fast. With the last of his strength he went in search of her, found her happy...