Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Antonius' case for an Arab-as opposed to a Jewish-Palestine rests on two premises: 1) the British promised
...last week was a Nazified parchesi called Juden Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews out of Germany and into Palestine...
Last week Mr. Antonius, after a short visit to the U. S.. sailed from Manhattan for London, where he is slated to be one of the Arab delegates in the forthcoming Arab-Jewish conference called by the British to ''solve'' the knotty Palestine problem. Not optimistic over the conference's outcome, Mr. Antonius was nevertheless hopeful that his new book. The Arab Awakening,* published last week, would win U. S. supporters for the Arab cause in Palestine...
...Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed off a breakwater, burned out a bearing. Bello did not mind; everything, he said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them...
Meanwhile, two smart Philadelphia Jewish boys named Harry and Maxwell Kunin had rolled out to Chicago in a Pullman and gone into the grocery trade. With their father they opened a small store, branched into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with...