Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another objection is that the minute you begin bringing these Jewish refugees into the United States (or into almost any other country, for that matter), you will have Anti-Semitism breaking out like malaria (And God knows the anti-Jewish feeling is prevalent enough here now). There are far too many people jobless or economically insecure to view an influx of job competitors calmly. That the situation might get pretty nasty, goes without saying...
With fresh intimation from Germany that the Jewish persecution will not cease until the point of extermination has been reached, the Corporation's voting of twenty scholarships for refugee students comes like a voice from some free, untroubled world. Naturally, this august ruling body is not enmeshing itself financially, for it has stipulated that no awards, which amount to $500 apiece, will be made unless the Undergraduate Committee on Refugee Students can raise an equalize. Furthermore, the University is in part covered by a generous gift of $5000, and it looks very probable that the remainder will be donated...
...most important international event since Munich, the efforts which the British Government is making to find a home for Germany's Jews. Having queried all the colonies, he revealed that the Governor of Tanganyika has put at his disposal 50,000 acres on which to settle Jewish men, their families to follow if the experiment succeeded...
With 700,000 oppressed Jews to succor, this first offer was only a drop in the great bucket of the Jewish colonization problem...
...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...