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Word: jewishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most ominous-and least likely-explanation of the change: Comrade Stalin had decided to ally himself with Führer Hitler. Obviously Comrade Litvinoff, born of Jewish parents in a Polish town (then Russian), could not be expected to complete such an alliance with rabidly Aryan Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...given thorough physical and mental tests before they are sent to homes for trial periods before legal adoption. Few children are ever returned to agencies. Religious ties are respected, and often children of mixed blood are supplied upon request. Four-year-old Al Jolson Jr. is half-Irish, half-Jewish, to match his foster mother and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chosen Children | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Most of us could do with a little Jewish blood and intelligence. I am sure that I could and I think that a little of that strain, at the very least, would have improved the shape of my nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hush-Hush Ends | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...thesis is that the highly evolved and special physiognomy so frequently characteristic of the Jew is correlated with certain equally highly evolved and specialized characteristics of mind, temperament and personality. . . . The purgative force of natural and social selection has been exerted continuously and with increasing severity upon the Jewish people, while it has been abated and nullified in large measure among our own non-Jewish stocks, which have been sheltered, pampered and fostered. . . . We go on merrily and righteously nurturing our 'Aryan' imbeciles, morons and criminals, encouraging them to breed more of their kind, and supporting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hush-Hush Ends | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Anthropologist Hooton's remedy for "this festering sore" of anti-Semitism is as bold as his thesis. "There is but one remedy," says he. "That is the assimilation of the Jewish minorities by intermarriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hush-Hush Ends | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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