Word: zionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Revisionist Leader Vladimir Jabotinskv, Russian-born journalist, poet, essayist, who operates in Poland, preaches terrorism, believes in a militant Zionism to be defended by Jewish arms. Banned from Palestine, having left the World Zionist Organization three years ago, frequently called the Jewish fascist leader, Jabotinsky and his methods were decried by official Palestinian Jewry. Zionist-supporting Hebrew newspapers called for self-restraint, the chief rabbinate of Palestine condemned reprisals, the Jewish Agency for Palestine asked that Jews practice "discipline and constructive work" as the "best reply to Arab terrorism." Before London's House of Commons, Secretary of State...
...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...
Principal spokesman for musical Zionism is fiery, bald-headed Lazare Saminsky, a Russo-Manhattanite who not only writes Israelite music, but books and articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...
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...