Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informed by a Jewish acquaintance in Berlin that the records have been prepared by a group of Jewish musicians who have turned to this method of supporting themselves after having lost their orchestra position because of their race. The artist responsible is Emil Herrmann, a violinist, and the records are prepared by the well-known radio record company, "Telefunken...
...vegetarians know, the price of beef is currently sky-high (TIME, Oct. 4). Higher still-by about 1? per Ib.-is kosher beef, which must be butchered sacrificially, handled ceremoniously. Last fortnight 5,000 New York City kosher butchers-who for months have had the unpleasant job of asking Jewish housewives to pay $1.35 for cuts which last year cost $1 - shut up shop, noisily announced they would not reopen until meat prices were down...
Finally Rabbi Joseph Konvitz, head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. & Canada, sternly urged the strikers to re-open "for spiritual as well as economic reasons." He feared that Jewish housewives would soon be tempted to buy nonkosher meat. After holding out a full week and having wrung promises of investigation from both city and Federal agencies, the butchers unlocked their shops-with steaks down from...
...thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself up as a middleman in onions, soon did magnificently...
...their estimation-tying up with Mussolini's son and taking the boy back to Hollywood. . . ." Thus Editor Maurice Kann of Manhattan's Motion Picture Daily recorded his version of what Hollywood's Hal Roach excitedly called up by transcontinental telephone to say last week, after both Jewish and Gentile cinema folk had criticized Producer Roach's partnership with Son Vittorio Mussolini (TIME...