Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot help saying quite harshly and bluntly that the Jewish people came to grief and disgrace because of its Positive Christianity!" thundered Martin Niemoller from his pulpit on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity last year. "It [the Jewish people] bears a curse throughout the history of the world because it was ready to approve of its Messiah just as long and as far as it thought it could gain some advantage for its own plans and its own aims from Him, His words and His deeds. It bears a curse because it rejected Him and resisted Him to the death...
...failed to catch Pastor Niemoller's high-powered implication that the Nazis are proud, race-conscious exponents of pure blood and in these respects resemble Jews. No more provocative suggestions could have been made in Germany, but Pastor Niemoller continued his sermon by shouting: "Positive Christianity, which the Jewish people wanted, clashed with Negative Christianity as Jesus himself represented it! . . . Friends, can we risk going with our nation without forgiveness of sins, without that so-called Negative Christianity which, when all is said and done, clings in repentance and faith to Jesus as the Savior of sinners? I cannot...
...days when Israel was great, the Jewish people were bound together by one belief: their God. Since the Diaspora (their dispersal from Palestine) Jews have followed many gods. Modern Jews have espoused two diametrically opposed causes: 1) Radicalism (which promises Jews a society without racial prejudice) and 2) Zionism (which promises Jews a national home in Palestine). While leftist-minded Jewish composers tend to express themselves in the tuneless technicalities of modernism, or in the Negroid dialect of jazz, Zionist-minded Jewish composers seek a purely Jewish variety of concert music, color their symphonies and sonatas with the traditional chants...
Though the originality of his early compositions drew high praise from Critic Romain Holland (Jean-Christophe). it was not until he was 35 that Bloch got into his stride as a composer of distinctly Jewish music, began to color his music with scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute...
...second splits when Clayton Reeves, a near-sighted English writer, whose father was Jewish, enters the Mosque of Omar, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. Three weeks before, Reeves's wife had died in Egypt. A sympathetic friend dragged him on a painful tour of the Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch...