Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their newfound stardom and opulent lifestyle quickly become complicated, however, when the National Socialists place limitations on what may be performed and by whom. Refusing to compromise their songs or replace their three Jewish members, The Harmonists decide to tour America and hope that the political climate will have changed by their return. While in New York, a few of the members contemplate remaining in the U.S. for their own safety, but it in the end they bravely return to Germany to give their final swan song a la The Sound of Music...
...Harmonists special permission to continue their performances despite the recent constrictions. The one riot scene, in which Nazi soldiers begin to chant derisively during the middle of a concert, shows the soldiers being suppressed by a dignified Nazi general, whom they instantly obey. At the movie's end, the Jewish members of the group leave quietly for other European countries and America...
...story begins when the Jewish underground called for volunteers to help these "displaced persons" reach Palestine--whether the British liked...
First, the ship had to be repaired. Members of the Jewish underground recruited 40 men, mostly Americans, through Jewish men's clubs, synagogues and word-of-mouth to rebuild the S.S. President Warfield...
...struggle between the Jews and the British--who had been their liberators throughout Europe just a few months before--continued until a 1949 United Nations agreement granted a portion of Palestine for Jewish settlement...