Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understanding of how one can be victimized by a lack of power, says Shanker, stems from his days as a Yiddish-speaking boy in a non-Jewish neighborhood of Queens, where other kids called him a "Christ-killer." Once they even tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang him. At the University of Illinois, he bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist...
...portray it has inevitably paled before the fact. Nonetheless, since war's end, some 50 U.S. local and national Jew ish organizations have been searching continually for sculptors or architects to design a suitable monument. Finally, three years ago, a formal Committee to Commemorate the Six Million Jewish Martyrs was set up. The art advisory committee, under the chairmanship of Washington Insuranceman-Collector David Lloyd Kreeger, had no difficulty in agreeing on Philadelphia Architect Louis I. Kahn. Last week a six-foot scale model of Kahn's proposed monument was put on display at Manhattan's Museum...
There are several reasons for the recovery. For all its drawbacks, Eshkol's policy of restraint has forced Israel's powerful labor unions to hold the wage line. In the months between the June war and the end of 1967, worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...
...might as well be frank -- that's the difference between our generations, don't you think--I'm Jewish, and I've heard a lot about antisemitism in big companies like this. What's the real story, how would my religion affect my chances for advancement...
Teachers also fear, and with some justification, that in some areas community control really means black control. Alarmed by anti-Semitic remarks from some ghetto leaders, the largely Jewish union fears capricious harrassment and dismissal by local boards which are more concerned with race than competence...