Word: antisemitisme
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Thirty Polish Jews went AWOL in Britain two weeks ago to escape the "virulent antiSemitism" of the Polish Army. Specifically, they said that Polish officers called Hitler the saviour of Europe for exterminating the Jews. Seeking transfer to British units as 200 others had successfully done last month, they were...
Boston's station WBZ declined to join the 80-station rebroadcast* on the ground that this radio dramatization of Selden Menefee's book Assignments: U.S.A. (a critical survey of wartime America) was more inclined to promote intolerance than tolerance. It was certainly bad advertising for Boston. Said the...
Author Hecht begins by explaining that, as a boy (he was raised in New York City and Racine, Wis.), he didn't know that anti-Semitism existed. His Russian-Jewish father was a passionately Americanized Elk, Knight of Pythias, Mason, Modern Woodsman and Loyal Moose. Later he met Jewish...
Last fortnight reviewers were hectically disagreeing over Author Hecht's diatribe. Said New York Post Reviewer Marvin Berger: "Welcome back into the lodge, Ben. Let's forgive and forget A Jew in Love." Said New York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain: "[A Guide for the Bedevilled] is a sort...
New York City police were not unduly excited. Said Washington Heights's Inspector Joseph Bannon: "The situation is much exaggerated. Things are very calm and collected in Washington Heights." Said Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "AntiSemitism is always a problem in a large, heterogeneous city such as New York...