When the sun came up in 1935, it found that Jews had been designated a preferred risk by the insurance companies of the day. One member of the medical community looked into their reasoning:
That the Jews are the most nervous of all civilized peoples in the civilized world has been established as almost axiomatic in the medical profession.
‘The Oddest Thing About the Jews” (Scientific Americans, 1935) Read More »
Here is a pretty middle-of-the-road type of article that explains the creation of British Palestine, the Jewish migration and the Arab unrest:
Writing in his History of Zionism, Nahum Sokalow looked in to the future: ‘The Jews have grown tired of their roll as the homeless Chosen People and would prefer to be a self-supporting small nation with a quiet spot of earth for themselves…’. The spot for which the Jews had yearned proved to be about as quiet as a live volcano.
Wanderers No More (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938) Read More »
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The Battle for the City of Peace (Pathfinder Magazine, 1948) Read More »
A fascinating read about how the previously embalmed language of Hebrew had been dusted off and born anew for the modern era. Hebrew in 1948 (the year that the U.N. recognized Israel as a nation) was largely seen as an inaccessible tongue known only to scholars – had existed for the past 4,000 years with a scant 8,000 words: this would now change as the language was permitted to live and grow once more. Today it is believed that Hebrew has between 60,000 and 150,000 words and that there are as many as 9 million people who speak the language worldwide.
Adapting Hebrew for the Modern Age (Coronet Magazine, 1960) Read More »
Europe’s displaced Jews in camps in Germany do not wish to return to their own countries, said Dr. Israel Goldstein of the American Jewish Conference, at a press conference yesterday.
‘Seventy-five to 90 percent make Palestine their first choice,’ he declared.
Post-War European Jews Headed to British Palestine (PM Tabloid, 1945) Read More »
Here is a 1937 article marking the significance of General Edmund Allenby’s (1861 – 1936) march into the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1917. Written twenty years after the event, the article also marks the twentieth anniversary of the the Balfour Declaration – the British edict that declared British Palestine as the home of world Jewry.
The Twentieth Anniversary (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
Although Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856 – 1943) enjoyed a lengthy tenure as the president of Harvard University (1909 – 1933), his reign there was not entirely free from controversy. One of the more unpleasant policies associated with his term was one in which he stated that Jewish enrollment to the university should be confined to an admissions quota that should not exceed the 15-percent mark.
Harvard University Charged with Antisemitism (Life Magazine, 1922) Read More »
This is an article about Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856 – 1943) who attempted to avoid the topic concerning his deep desire to admit Jews by quota and keep their numbers limited to a particularly low proportion.
In 1923 President Lowell came up with a politically palatable solution: he limited the size of the incoming class to one thousand, which meant incorporating an evaluation of each candidate’s non-academic qualities into the admissions decision. How manly was the candidate, for instance? How congenial and clubbable? What promise, what potential for future leadership?
Over time meritocracy won out – until Asians began applying in large numbers…
‘Harvard Talks About Jews” (Literary Digest, 1922) Read More »
From a guarded high-walled villa in Alexandria, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (1895 – 1974), exiled fifty-three year-old Grand son of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem craftily directs the affairs of the 1,200,000 Palestinian Arabs.
In the Mufti’s web, the strands of potential organized resistance include two rival ‘youth organizations’, the al-Najjada and the Al-Futawa and the ‘mobile elements’ of the secret Muslim Brotherhood, which is a sort of Middle Eastern Ku Klux Klan. The precise figures of their strength are elusive, but combined they may comprise something like 50,000 men and boys.
Mohammad Nimr al-Hawari, thirty-eight-year-old leader of the Najjada told me, ‘We believe in force’.
The Arabs Mobilize (Collier’s Magazine, 1947) Read More »
Some thirty-one years prior to the official establishment of Israel as a nation, one columnist could read the tea leaves well enough to see that the United States would serve as the protectorate of the young country.
Click here to read a 1933 magazine article concerning the rise of secularism in American society.
Anticipating America’s Unique Relationship With Israel (Literary Digest, 1917) Read More »
