Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more anti-Jewish legislation against the older Jews would be promulgated in Germany while the emigration plan is operating, barring any "extraordinary event" (i. e., another vom Rath murder...
...Part of Jewish property in Germany would be pooled into a trust fund from which emigrating Jews would be able to draw for passage, equipment and machinery needed in their new homelands...
Last month Hungary's Premier Bela Imrédy, speaking at his home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
...racial bills facing probable defeat, Dr. Imredy was forced to admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic and cultural affairs of the country is a good thing...
Absurd as it was for a statesman of Semitic descent to promote antiSemitism, the discovery of Jewish blood provided the excuse rather than the reason for the Imredy resignation. The Premier was already on his way out. Leading politicians, the powerful Catholic Church, even some Cabinet colleagues were glad...