Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerusalem flat, Rabbi Klemes let himself down into a comfortable chair and tuned in the radio. "Tonight you will hear a recording of this morning's broadcast from Moscow," said the announcer. Frail old (74) Jacob Klemes, who had slipped out of Russia in 1934 after nine nervous years as Rabbi of Moscow, leaned forward, the better to hear his mother tongue. Half an hour later his housekeeper found him dead...
Born: Paris, May 4, 1895, grandson of a rabbi, son of Jacob Justin Mayer, director of a dynamite company, and Marthe Rose Simone Dupont. A cousin by marriage of the famous Rothschild banking family, he has often represented Rothschild interests on company directorates...
Festive Coconuts. The Portuguese, during their rule in India, tried to stamp out native Christian practices and enforce strict conformity to Latin rituals. In reaction, many Indian Christians broke away from Rome. Called "Jacobites," after Jacob al-Baradai, a 6th century Syrian bishop, they now number 800,000. Another group, the St. Thomas Christians (membership: 200,000), broke away in turn from the Jacobites, under Protestant influence, in 1837. About 1,000,000 "Romo-Syrians" have remained faithful to the Roman Catholic Church, although they use Syriac and their native language in their liturgy...
Austrian-born Chaim Gross came to Ostrowsky as a youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...
Invited to Sit Down. When Taylor took over the Metropolitan in 1940, the great museum needed a shakeup. The golden age of the great benefactors, like J. P. Morgan and Jacob Rogers, had filled it with treasures, but many trifles had accumulated as well, and the public was more familiar with its exterior than its inside. "My job," says Taylor, "was to try, without causing any palace revolutions, to look to the future rather than the past...