Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carefully distinguishing between the Jewish religion, which he called "a highly respected faith," and Zionism, Rifa'i declared that Zionism was "a radical political movement...
...Wechsler changed course, and brought it into the black by leavening a heavy diet of Fair Deal politicking with such flamboyant series as "The V-Girls of 1954," "Unwed Mothers" and "Walter Winchell." At the same time, he wooed New York's big Jewish population with its pro-Zionism and coverage of minority problems. Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, a devout Democrat, believes that politics is one major reason for the paper's new success. Says she: "We are the only 'liberal' [i.e., proDemocratic] daily in the city...
...Czechoslovakia, November 1952, Rudolf Slansky, Communist Party secretary-general, and 13 high-placed codefendants confessed to high treason, conspiracy, murder, espionage, Titoism, Zionism, in behalf of "foreign imperialist agents." Who was their spymaster? "The well-known agent Field." Verdict: death on the gallows for Slansky and ten others; imprisonment for three...
...1880s a series of bloody pogroms in the Russia of Czar Alexander III set off another great wave of Jewish immigration -2,000,000 came to the U.S. between 1881 and 1914. mostly from Russia and Poland. These Eastern Jews brought with them orthodoxy, Zionism, the Yiddish language and a tighter grip on their Jewish traditions than the Germans had shown...
...Hecht has assaulted the world as a gifted playwright (The Front Page}, maudlin novelist (A Jew in Love), bright essayist (A Guide for the Bedeviled} and cantankerous pamphleteer for Zionism...