Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Israel after students, enraged by his radical opinions, forced his resignation from Hanover Technical College and the Hitler Government confiscated his property. To Marienbad he fled, taking with him as his chief treasure the walking stick of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Last week while the 18th World Zionist Congress squab- bled hoarsely in Prague, someone raised a clumsy fire ladder to the third floor window of Professor Lessing's bedroom. Two men went up the ladder, two pistol bullets cracked through the window pane and into Professor Lessing's head. He died in his wife...
Others count themselves lucky merely to get occupation outside Hitler's jurisdiction. Last week Kurt Goldstein, Berlin neurologist, was in Switzerland. Ludwig Halberstaedter was in Palestine, where the American Jewish Physicians' Committee and Hadassah (women's Zionist organiza- tion) hope to build a hospital and medical school. German refugees would have staff opportunities with both. Bernhard Zondek, Berlin gynecologist who helped devise a positive test for pregnancy, has invitations from Stockholm and Leyden. Safely back in Manhattan, where he is a naturalized U. S. citizen, is Gustav Bucky, Berlin cancer specialist. Another able medical emigre in Manhattan...
...Promised Land" by Allen Davis, the first production, would have made even a more mature organization hesitate. Not only the subject matter which concerned the very controversial question of the Zionist movement, but also the four big sets of scenery, the enormous cast, and the mobs of extras threatened to overwhelm the club in its first serious attempt. The organization, still in its swaddling clothes, proved itself a child prodigy. In January, 1909, the Harvard Monthly records that "people who came curious or indifferent, went away impressed and thoughtful. The Club has made a remarkable beginning in its chosen work...
...Yorkers were not surprised at Charitarian Straus's participation. Carrying on his late great father's good works, Mr. Straus, onetime State Senator and a leader in the U. S. Zionist movement, has long led a civic-minded group of park planners...
...promoting pasteurization. His interest in Palestine came comparatively late in life, and all his strictly Jewish benefactions (including the Jerusalem Health Centre) totaled less than the $5,000,000 which the late Julius Rosenwald gave for Jewish colonization in Crimea. Nathan Straus Jr. did not take part in Zionist affairs until comparatively recently. Educated at Heidelberg and Princeton (as a graduate student under Woodrow Wilson), he became a cub reporter for the New York Globe, bought Puck in 1914, built its circulation from 18,000 to 105,000. The anti-Semitism which Life then featured he fought hotly. Publisher Straus...