Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernest Bloch: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting, with Joseph Szigeti; Columbia: 8 sides). Not for many years has 59-year-old musical Zionist Bloch wailed so fine a rhapsody. Violinist Szigeti gives his Oriental oratory superb diction...
From Geneva the Zionists scattered to their home countries like quail flushing before a hawk. Their noisy objections to Britain's plans for establishing an Arab State in Palestine with the Jews as a minority were silenced by the spectre of other powers, less friendly to Jews, controlling Palestine. And in Britain's mind, the fate of Jews there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist...
...crossed on a liner with a shipload of Zionists, and by the time the boat reached England she was full of the Zionist cause. This got her a job covering the Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed...
...Legend: The War Office reportedly negotiated the promise in return for the TNT formula of Jewish Chemist Chaim Weizmann, longtime Zionist leader...
...Zionists campaigned to get 1,000,000 Jews to buy Shekalim at 50? each, entitling them to vote in world Zionist elections. Symbol of Jewish solidarity, a Shekel (see cut) shows a reproduction of an ancient Hebrew coin. In Poland, where Jews are poor, a Shekel costs only a few cents. In the last Zionist voting year, 1937, only 217,214 U. S. Jews bought Shekalim...