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...found a Lebanese. Israelis have no trouble finding jobs. They usually speak at least some English and often come with money to invest, accumulated from the sale of their homes, cars and other possessions back in Israel. The most recent arrivals are men in their 20s or early 30s, many of them professionals or skilled workers. Besides driving taxis, they are engaged in a host of businesses, most visibly clothing boutiques. Many are Israeli trained doctors, scientists, engineers and teachers. The Israelis have their own weekly newspaper, Our Israel, published in New York (circ. 30,000 per week). They also...
...much as in the '30s and '40s, modernism is anathema...
...socialist content) and narodnost (closeness to the people). For Stalin, this ideal was most faithfully reflected in the work of his favorite painter, Alexander Gerasimov, whose portraits of the dictator in various noble poses hung in museums, offices, factories and homes everywhere. At the same time, in the '30s and '40s, Stalin used every kind of coercion to apply the Socialist Realism doctrine, destroying the avant-garde and the contacts with Western artists that it needed. By 1953, when Stalin died, no Soviet artist could see, except in the most fragmentary way, any modernist...
Considering the fact that the 1917 Revolution was dedicated to the destruction of religion, the present standoff is something of a triumph for Orthodoxy.* The early Bolshevik regime confiscated church lands and abolished religious influence in schools. Intense atheism campaigns in the 1920s and '30s led to the imprisonment and death of thousands of priests and the desecration of countless churches. In the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, workers boasted that they burned 20,000 icons in socialist competition. By 1939, when Stalin signed his pact with Hitler, the Russian Orthodox Church had only 100 or so churches open throughout...
Most questions are answered in due time. In the Richlerian calendar this means flipping back and forth from Montreal of the '30s and '40s, London and Spain of the '50s and la belle province of the present...