Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the German Reichsmusikkammer (State Chamber of Music). But independent-minded Strauss soon found himself in conflict with Nazi ideas of musical propriety. Nazi authorities regretted that his favorite librettist, von Hofmannsthal, had been a Jew, but agreed to let bygones be bygones if he would abjure Jewish librettists in the future. Promptly Composer Strauss got himself another Jewish librettist, Austrian-born Dramatist Stefan Zweig, and started work on a new opera called Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman...
...years ago 500,000 Jews made up 7/10 of 1% of Germany's population. The 48,000 Jews now in Italy are only ⅛ of 1% of the population and compared to German Jews they have been lucky. Fascists have always boasted that in Italy there is no Jewish Problem. Jews have enjoyed equal legal rights. They have been writers, bankers, businessmen, even conspicuous Fascists. But for two years there have been unofficial indications that the luck of Italian Jews may be running...
Jews in Tripoli have been beaten up. Preferment in the army has been quietly given to non-Jews. Anti-Jewish editorials have been more and more frequent in such Fascist organs as Regime Fascista, II Tevere. When Hitler visited Rome in May hundreds of Jews were temporarily imprisoned. Jews are being frozen out of the theatre, out of literature. Last fortnight booksellers were officially forbidden to display books by Italian Jews, publishers to print translations of books by foreign Jews...
...suspicion in the mind of Sig. Mussolini that rich Jews have been skimping recently on their contributions to the Empire; 3) Sig. Mussolini's opposition to Freemasonry. Bolshevism, speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then the Arabs in Palestine would be let alone and international capital would be brought in to develop the Empire...
...slums. Käthe Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned, not because it was abstract, but because he was Jewish. Franz Marc, represented by his famed Blue Horse, considered by many a critic the most brilliant of German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before he had turned out vivid abstractions that run counter to Hitler's esthetic creed. But the casualties of war and poverty were...