Word: jews
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...LAST OF THE JUST, by André Schwarz-Bart. Through one family, a bitter, largely self-taught first novelist follows the unrelenting horror of anti-Semitism from medieval England to Hitler's Germany. The author's grim tale belies his dictum: "To be a Jew is impossible...
...popular, soulfully handsome Ribicoff was considered a top candidate for U.S. Attorney General. Ribicoff turned down that job with the characteristic comment that he was out of practice as a lawyer-and besides, it would be politically hard on the new Administration for a Catholic and a Jew to lead any fight for integration. Son of an immigrant factory worker, Ribicoff escaped from the New Britain, Conn, tenements to win a law degree at the University of Chicago in 1933. After two terms on a Hartford police court, he spent four impressive years in Congress, narrowly (by 3,115 votes...
...cottage, stoned the family's black-and-white dog. "Look," cried one woman, "even their dog's integrated." When police shooed the women away, they went to a hospitable neighbor's lawn, where self-styled "cheerleaders" chanted their favorite doggerel: "Nigger lover, nigger lover, nigger lover, Jew: we hate niggers, we hate you." In front of the shabby public-housing apartment where the Gabrielles live, a crowd of children waved Confederate flags and piped: "All I want for Christmas is a clean white school...
Author Koestler, born a Jew but now a "seeker after truth" without religious affiliation, reports: "I started my journey in sackcloth and ashes, and came back rather proud of being a European." He descended from his plane into the fetid air of Bombay-"I had the sensation that a wet, smelly diaper was being wrapped around my head"-and picked his way through a series of visits with what he calls "contemporary saints." There was white-bearded Vinoba Bhave, marching through India in tennis shoes, seven days a week, year after year, persuading the rich to give their land...
...Jew to Catholic. Raised in Brooklyn, the son of a master cooper, Greenburg lost the use of his legs when he got polio at 16. He took up weight lifting, soon huffed through 500 knee bends at a time. (He now mows his lawn at a dead run, each day drives up to 200 golf balls 200 yds.) Jewish by family background, he was converted to Catholicism after reading St. Thomas Aquinas at Brooklyn's St. John's University. He took his doctorate at Columbia, where, despite the ubiquitous influence of John Dewey, he remained a disciple...