Word: pogroms
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...painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors and executives were jolted out of their complacency by the realization that "a pogrom could actually occur in a highly civilized country in the Twentieth Century." To study anti-Semitism at work, and write a book about it, he went to Germany, which left him still puzzled so he went on to Poland, then to Palestine, to Soviet Russia. He wound up with...
...stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born in a Ukrainian village of Jewish parents, he lived there long enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English language, saw one of his friends flee after killing a policeman, learned the reality of hard...
...Masses reporter, who published his story under the pseudonym of "Porter Niles," wrote that he gained ready admittance to Mr. True's office by saying he came from Republican Party headquarters. Besides the imminence of the September pogrom, he learned from True that "Jews pay Negroes to rape white girls; Jews caused the World War and the Depression; Franklin Roosevelt is really named Rosenfeld and Jew Rosenfeld is insane; the Jews have been "plotting the destruction of Christian civilization for 500 years...
...midnight Nazidom's first avowed pogrom was ready to burst. Once again, however, Nazi luck held. Just before the brownshirt mobs got completely out of hand Franconia's famed Jew-baiting Boss Nazi, Dr. Julius Streicher, decided that somebody had made a mistake. Though he has shrieked "Death to Jews!" from a thousand hustings, Nazi Streicher abruptly blamed everything on a subordinate official of his Brown House and manifestoed in time's nick: "Irresponsible elements have been spreading rumors that Jews had attempted to assassinate our Leader. In the ensuing excitement they demanded that Jews be punished...
...faithful fragment of his regiment, only to find that his native land was no longer a part of Russia but an independent country. As commander of the garrison town of Koropta, Tarabas was not so happy or so successful as he had been in the field. When a pogrom occurred, Tarabas was too drunk to check it in time. Next day he encountered a half-witted Jew who was disobeying the regulations about staying indoors. In his fury Tarabas pulled the old man's beard out by the roots...