Word: nister
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...Nerdy quiz-show writer impulsively swipes a Chagall during a party at a museum. Why? The answer takes us back to the life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...
...people who know Yiddish and want to keep in touch with it. We will read from the works of Sholem Aleichem, Bergelson, Bailik, Der Nister, Grade, Hofstein, Kulback, Leivick, Manager, Main Leib, and Peretz...
...teacher, Barth found that theology needed reconstruction as well as criticism, and during professorships at the universities of Münister and Bonn he began to study the writings of the church fathers and the Reformation confessions. Totally absorbed in the Word of God, Barth had little time for the word of man. Politics, he wrote then, was "essentially a game," and "fundamentally uninteresting...
...underline Dr. Dietrich's concept of information, in Münister last week Dr. Joseph Göebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment & Propaganda, told the world what Germany expects of the press in neutral countries. Said he: "Even in neutral States the precepts of freedom of opinion must not be misused ... to insult the warring powers. ..." "It is not enough," cried Dr. Göebbels, "for the government of a neutral country to proclaim its neutral attitude . . . while public opinion has the freedom to insult! . . ." Meanwhile, German newspapers bristled with angry editorials attacking the Swiss press, which had referred...
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