Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not thank God he is not "a dog, a woman, of a Christian." A Polish Jew gives prayer of thanks "he was not created a slave, he was not created a woman, he was not created a goy." There is no reference to dogs in the entire Jewish prayer book. The prayer originated 2,000 years ago in days of slavery, legal incapacity for females, idolatry among the goyim. Goy does not mean a Christian. Goyim literally means a people of the earth ; in slang it means a non-Jew, an infidel. . . . Women were absolved of rituals and incapacitated...
Long ago, when a hunchbacked Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), grandfather of Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, introduced German culture to Berlin's ghettos the Enlightened Jews objected. For "Before Christ" they insisted on substituting "Before the Common Era," for "Anno Domini" the "Common Era." At the spectacle of the Aryans following Jewish example nearly 200 years later, Jewish rabbis chuckled in their beards...
...particular, the coverage of the Spanish war by such newspapers as the New York Times infuriates Catholic publicists. In America, sharply-edited Jesuit weekly, Rev. 'John A. Toomey, S. J. lately urged that Catholics bring their national organizations to bear on offending journals. Father Toomey pointed out that Jewish issues are never misrepresented for long in the U. S. press, in which Jews are important advertisers...
...sake, Manhattan business firms have been used to periodic touches by money-raisers of all kinds, from Protestant uplifters to Catholic mendicant sisters. Organized last week was the Greater New York Fund, Inc. which, so far as business is concerned, will represent a community chest for 56 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and nonsectarian eleemosynary bodies. Supplementing private donations, which will be expected as usual, the business touch will come but once a year, in May. Goal this year...
Italy is the prototype of the "Corporative State," and Dictator Hohenzollern indicated that he would generally follow Il Duce's model.* Busy launching Rumania's new Constitution along Corporative lines last week. His Majesty paused to show approximately where he stands on Rumania's vexed Jewish question (TIME, Jan. 31, et ante). The new Constitution, it was announced, would give "equality before the law" to all ethnically pure Rumanians and also to "all people of other races who have lived for centuries on Rumanian soil," thus continuing the distinction made by Jew-baiting former Premier Goga between...