Word: mezuzah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great help in getting the Covenant of the League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles. Wherever Jews were harassed Mr. Straus used his public power to defend them. He was pious in his religious observances; and always kept nailed to the door-posts of his homes a mezuzah, a small case containing the Israelitish creed "Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One," together with appropriate verses from Deuteronomy. Such a career, decided the Jewish Tribune readers, was statuesque. It deserved a memorial, and for that the magazine has started a campaign*. When the statue...