Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dybbuk (Ludwig Prywes). In Yiddish folklore, a dybbuk (pronounced dee-book) is a disembodied soul, denied peace in after life because of some earthly transgression, seeking refuge in the body of one it has loved. Twenty years ago, the late Playwright Solomon Rappaport, writing as S. Ansky, wove the myth of the dybbuk into a Jewish folk play. The Dybbuk has since become the most famous item in Yiddish drama, even more widely known than The Golem (TIME, March 29). Every major city in the world has seen it staged; it has been translated into 17 tongues, including Esperanto. Rappaport...
...minister, rabbi and priest, the N. C. J. C. has increased such activities until, last year, 25 teams traveled 25,000 miles preaching amity. Newest N. C. J. C. goodwill stunt is for a team to "bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago wielded a spade while Presbyterian Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter of Berkeley, Calif, and Rev. Thomas Lawrason Riggs, famed chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club, deposited a small hatchet in the cold earth...
...leading negotiator for Moscow with Amsterdam was Solomon Lozovzky, a skyrocketing new favorite of Dictator Stalin. Few weeks ago he was a little known Soviet Trade Union official. Last week he was suddenly nominated for membership in the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party and to become Leader of the Profintern. The Profintern is the Red International of Labor Unions, created in 1921 by the Comintern of Moscow, whose business is to make "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...Rubin Solomon junk...
...Parthenon, and that will be a sight to burst with laughter or weep with shame; any one of these Indians is a sister of that ancient. . . . The decoration is always simple, taken from familiar things of nature and craft; beauty of hard earth and birds, better than Solomon in all his glory; and put together with an abstract geometry such as only this people after the Greeks of Crete have possessed...