Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when Israel was great, the Jewish people were bound together by one belief: their God. Since the Diaspora (their dispersal from Palestine) Jews have followed many gods. Modern Jews have espoused two diametrically opposed causes: 1) Radicalism (which promises Jews a society without racial prejudice) and 2) Zionism (which promises Jews a national home in Palestine). While leftist-minded Jewish composers tend to express themselves in the tuneless technicalities of modernism, or in the Negroid dialect of jazz, Zionist-minded Jewish composers seek a purely Jewish variety of concert music, color their symphonies and sonatas with the traditional chants...
TRUMPET OF JUBILEE-Ludwig Lew-isohn-Harper ($2.50). Apocalyptic family chronicle of a German-Jewish family whose experiences range from Hitler concentration camps to the World Wars of 1940-2000, fought successfully to make the world safe for the lower forms of animal life. About equal parts of Zionism, Wellsian phantasy...
...Jews adhere, there exist two mouthpieces neither of which claims to be more authoritative than the other: the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Year and a half ago the Rabbis surprisingly reversed one "Americanizing" principle of Reform, by withdrawing old objections to Zionism (TIME, July...
...Soon thereafter the delegates to the 39th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America elected Rabbi Wise their president for the next two years; created a new post, that of chairman of the administrative committee, for Morris Rothenberg, Manhattan lawyer and outgoing Zionist president. Thus did U. S. Zionism compose its differences to present a united front against practical threats to their dream of a Jewish homeland...
...rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge" and "cowardice," by reversing its stand on Zionism, resolving: "We are persuaded that acceptance or rejection of the Zionist program should be left to the determination of individual members...