Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally's statement predictably evoked howls of outrage from friends of Israel, for whom "self-determination" is a synonym for an independent Palestinian state. They denounced it as capitulation to oil blackmail. Rita Hauser, a prominent New York Republican, quit her post as top Jewish adviser in Connally's campaign. Philadelphia Republican Mayoral Candidate David Marston publicly snubbed the Texan by refusing to be photographed with...
Moshe Dayan had resigned as Foreign Minister in basic disagreement over Israeli policy for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A day later, the country's Supreme Court struck a body blow at the Begin government's policy of permitting Jewish settlements to be established in the West Bank on the pretext that they strengthen Israel's ''security...
This was the time of the destruction of Jewish cultural life in the Soviet Union and the arrest of leading Jewish intellectuals. A purge of the arts was under way that mortally threatened those writers and composers who had survived the Great Terror of the mid-'30s. In music the principal target was Shostakovich. Though laden with Stalin Prizes, he was now being termed the author of "un-Soviet, unwholesome, eccentric, tuneless" works. He knew what to do. In 1936 he had nearly lost his life after receiving a public "whipping" for an opera that had displeased Stalin. Following...
Though he was born in Brooklyn, the city of Perelman's childhood and youth was Providence. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. At Brown University one of his best friends was Nathanael West, the future author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, and a future brother...
Much of Singer's fiction deals with demons and other elements of Jewish folklore, which he said he read and loved passionately as a child...