Word: pogroms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pogrom by the Sea. The Buddhists started yelling that the new government setup denied them sufficient authority, particularly since their man, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, had been ousted as nominal chief of state. Although they had little cause for complaint under Buddhist Khanh's rule, the monks now claimed that too many of Diem's old followers remained in the government. Busily stirring up ancient hatreds between the two faiths was Thich Tri Quang, the monk who enjoyed refuge in the United States embassy last year-an ambitious, probably neutralist and possibly pro-Communist intriguer...
...pogrom had been inspired by the assassination of German Diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a 17-year-old stateless Jew named Hershel Grynszpan.* It was, Joseph Goebbels told Hitler, a propaganda opportunity equal to that of the Reichstag fire. Hitler agreed, and the Storm Troopers were released for their "spontaneous" action, while regular police turned their backs. Both German television networks last week filled their peak viewing hours with programs mercilessly reminding Germans of what they had allowed to happen. Leading newspapers devoted entire pages to recollecting in detail the horrors of Kristallnacht...
...willing to strike as one of the minorities in a pluralistic society. When court victories produce only a harvest of fear and distrust, will it all have been worthwhile?" "Threatening & Patronizing." Jewish leaders responded as if the Jesuits had suggested that this was a good time for a pogrom. "America performs a disservice in raising the spectre of anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Elmer Berger of the American Council for Judaism. In a joint statement, the leaders of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis reacted "with chagrin and disappointment" to America's "threatening...
...Lukshin Kugel" is sloppily sentimental, affecting an uncritical nostalgia for the ghetto, and is narrated in a shoulder-shrugging Yiddish tone that is not maintained consistently. In one moment, the narrator sounds like a much-oppressed peasant from the Russian Pale ("Myself, I say, you never know when a pogrom is going to come along. One minute you're in Minsk licking a herring, the next minute you're running for your life."). In the next, he is commenting in the voice of a social historian (The Ladies' Home Journal replaced the Tanach as the authority in household affairs."). Throughout...
Poor Professor Toynbee! He has dared to criticize Israel and must now be branded as antiSemitic. Criticism of Jews or Israel is for some uncanny reason construed as advocating a pogrom or approving the ghastly atrocities of the Nazis. Professor Toynbee could have excoriated Southerners, Protestants, Puerto Ricans and Catholics with impunity, but he made the unpardonable mistake of expressing an opinion uncomplimentary to Zionists (and not necessarily to Jews...