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...their synagogues, the Jews celebrated Purim. In the place of honor, beside the reader, sat a uniformed Haganah militiaman...
...Jewish city of Tel Aviv (pop. 174,000), most of it cordoned off from the rest of Palestine by British soldiers, the people crowded their synagogues last week. It was the time of Purim, ordinarily a time for dancing in the streets. Purim commemorates the Jews' deliverance from destruction by the Persians, as related in the Book of Esther. Now Tel Aviv's thousands prayed for deliverance from their troubles of today. At the close of services, rabbis and cantors issued warnings that children should not celebrate Purim with firecrackers or anything else that might sound like rifle...
...kind treatment during my imprisonment and I ask God to accept me with mercy." Then Wilhelm Frick: "Long live eternal Germany!" Then Julius Streicher, who looked wild-eyed and yelled "Heil Hitler." When asked for his name, he roared: "You know it well." From the gallows he jeered: "Purim Festival 1946"-and: "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day." As the black hood was placed over his head, his raucous voice could be heard saying: "Adele, my dear wife." At 2:14, the trap swallowed him. Reported Sergeant Woods: ". . . He kicked a little while, but not long...
...holding the Nazi Press. Roared Julius Streicher's Frankische Tageszeitung: "The assassination of Gustloff is another in the long series of Jewish ritual murders which began with the slaughter of the Aryans by Jews thousands of years ago and is now celebrated annually in the feast of Purim...
...Purim, masquerading used to be a universal practice, with shpieler (players) going from house to house, to rigadoon and sing: "Hcint is Purim, morgen is ois, git uns a groshen, und varft uns arois." (''Today is Purim, tomorrow it's over, give us a penny and send us off.") The custom of Mishloach Monos (gifts to friends and to the poor) introduced a messenger called the Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading...