Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither did anyone else, but the anti-Jewish handbills scattered by the mob were obviously not prepared by Mexicans. They were written in Castilian Spanish style, which few Mexicans use. They were signed by Ruben Moreno Padres, president of the Nationalist Vanguard, who boasted few months ago that his anti-Semitic activities had the support and the sympathy of the German Legation in Mexico City...
Chanting "Kill Jews! Kill Jews!", the crowd marched off through the streets, smashed Jewish-owned store windows, stoned a Jewish pool hall, converged on the auditorium of the Jewish Chamber of Commerce. There many of Mexico City's Jews had gathered to hear a lecture by Leon Forem, a Yiddish novelist from The Bronx. Prevented from entering by a barricade of tables and chairs hastily thrown up by the audience, the demonstrators besieged the building and hurled rocks through the windows. Finally police and firemen, armed with submachine guns and fire hoses, forced the mob to disperse...
Meanwhile, the Hahn report must have brought commingled pleasure and discomfiture to his colleague, crusty old Physicist Johannes Stark, who heads the Reich Physical-Technical Institute. Johannes Stark whoops up the Nazi idea that physical experiment is better than theory, regards theory as "Jewish" in spirit. Hahn's high-voltage explosion was produced by experiment, but accidentally; and it could never have been evaluated or even recognized without the help of theory...
...fear of trichinosis but simple tabu was responsible for ancient Jewish laws against eating pork. Reason behind the tabu, say modern anthropologists, was that nomadic Jewish tribes could not keep swine, which are "sedentary" animals...
Bublitchki (Ziggy Elman; Bluebird), novelty-of-the-month. Jewish folk song by Benny Goodman's band (minus the brass section), featuring a riffling trumpet chorus by Mr. Elman...