Word: rheinstrom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rheinstrom must be a very good Jewess, since she possesses the weakness of her race in a full measure. The writer of this page read the article in the TIME Magazine and yet he did not think that any malice or slander was intended by the designation "young Jew." Mrs. Rheinstrom's objection simply represents Jewish hyper-sensitiveness which very often looks for anti-Semitism and finds it in places where it does not begin to exist. The fact of the matter is that we ought to be glad that Mr. Gershwin was characterized by a Gentile writer...
...Rheinstrom makes a very poor and illogical comparison when she says that Christians are not ordinarily spoken of as "young Catholics" or "young Methodists" or "young Presbyterians" in newspaper accounts. Judaism is much more than a religious denomination, and a Jew is a Jew not necessarily by virtue of his religious affiliation. A Jew may be an agnostic and yet he still passes for a Jew by virtue of his descent from the Jewish race. To say this is of course rank heresy, and now that we have made this statement we are quite prepared for the attacks which...
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