Word: synagog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Sephardic Jews fled to South America. In 1654 a few reached Manhattan from Brazil and at once established the Spanish & Portuguese Synagog?North America's first. Until 1825 it was the only synagog in Manhattan. By that time sufficient German Jews had drifted into the community to organize Manhattan's first Ashkenazic congregation, B'nai Jeshurun.* Since then waves of northern and eastern Jews have spread over the U. S. and bred until last year U. S. Jews numbered some 4,230,000. But only 40,000 are Sephardic Jews, and most of these migrated from the Near East...
...moment allowing his day to be spoiled, Mr. Zukor rode with Mrs. Zukor beamingly beneath a triumphal arch, down a quaint main street, finally reached the synagog. "Welcome, welcome, Mr. Zukor," cried the Mayor of Ricse, and added somewhat redundantly, "We hail you as the greatest citizen of our village!" ( He is in fact the world's foremost cinema executive, president of Paramount-Famous-Lasky...