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...Communist Party in 1919, had 14 aliases, filed notice of intention to become a U.S. citizen in 1935, then did nothing more about it. He wrote eloquent articles for Communist publications in the U.S., and became general secretary of Manhattan's Morning Freiheit Association, which publishes the Communist Yiddish-language newspaper, Morning Freiheit. For the past few years Bittelman has been a mild looking suburbanite, commuting from Croton on Hudson to Manhattan...
Following the intermission, Nicholas Van Slyck '46 will lead the orchestra in Prokofleff's Overture on Yiddish Themes and in the first performance of his own composition, "Divertimento...
Greenburg turned state's evidence. Moe, Gail and Miller were charged with armed robbery. Gail pleaded guilty, then attempted suicide. Last week, Moe the gonif and Miller, his hired punk, were convicted. Yiddish for thief...
...name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...
...Mountaintop. He withdrew into scholarship. Having mastered Yiddish and Hebrew, he delved deep into Jewish culture, became a Zionist. In 1922, after being shipwrecked on the way, he landed in Palestine. There he decided to stay for the rest of his life. In 1925, when Jewish and British notables gathered on Mount Scopus to dedicate Hebrew University, he was made its first chancellor...