Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the.
What Walter Lippmann called “the acids of modernity” were at work in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, where heterodox ideas, including socialism and then Bundism and Zionism, eroded traditional orthodoxies. Cahan’s novel is described as “semi-autobiographical,” but uses fictional plot devices such as David’s mother murdered in a pogrom for melodramatic effect.
Abraham Cahan’s real life was dramatic enough. The son of a Hebrew teacher and tavern keeper, Cahan was born in 1860 in a shtetl before his family moved to Vilna. His Hebrew education was disrupted by his passion for Russian language and literature. He also supported the Narodnaya Volya terrorist underground. The pogroms blaming the Jews for the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881 precipitated the first mass emigration of Russian Jews to the US. Russian radicals, who taught Cahan that
The New York Times opinion writer accused of serving as an unregistered, paid foreign agent of Iran may have a.
Born in Brooklyn, the son of a successful New York lawyer, Harland was educated at the City College of New York and Harvard Divinity School. He had to hold down a tedious day job while writing fiction at night. He believed that writers who were “old stock” Americans like himself were being ignored in favor of authors of “ethnic fiction.”
His solution: the “Sidney Luska” appellation, which he used in fiction with melodramatic Jewish characters and plots.
Stephanie Foote describes Harland’s literary strategy as “ethnic transvestism.” Harland’s Jewish characters were typically either deeply-learned rabbinic scholars or ruthless exploiters of the marketplace. His female characters sometimes hid their Jewish identities to succeed in “the marriage market.” His plots often preached the era’s social reform ideas.
Reverend Charles Robinson will give his last sermon on Sunday at St. Luke s Episcopal Church. Robinson, who arrived in Park City 17 years ago, relied on his experience as a licensed marriage and family counselor who holds degrees in clinical psychology, philosophy and divinity, to lead his congregation and serve the community.
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Reverend Charles Robinson plans to give his last sermon as rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, April 18, after 17 years of weekly sermons and service in the Park City community.
“I’m retiring,” Robinson said in his trademark unassuming way. “I’m 66, and I had always planned when I got to 66 that I would hang up my spurs.”
MOUNT HOLLY The Burlington County Board of Commissioners are touting a 2021 county budget with no tax levy increase despite the expectation revenues will be down.
The board unanimously approved the introduction of its proposed $233 million budget at its meeting on March 24. It s the earliest the county budget has been introduced in modern history, officials said.
The proposed budget would keep the county tax levy stable at $169.7 million while maintaining county staff and providing funding for its COVID-19 response and other county services and programs.
“For over a year the COVID-19 pandemic has put an incredible strain on the finances of our residents and small businesses, and our Board was determined not to add to their tax burden during the still ongoing crisis,” said Commissioner Director Felicia Hopson.
James Weldon Johnson (1876–1938), who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice” with his brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson, was a poet, novelist, Broadway lyricist, civil rights activist, and diplomat. Johnson expressed a diverse range of views about different subjects, including the affinities between African-Americans and Jews.
As Leonard Dinnerstein’s “Antisemitism in America” notes, in a 1918 essay published in The New York Age, an African American newspaper, Johnson wrote of “the two million Jews [who] have a controlling interest in the finances of the nation.” Yet he nevertheless urged fellow blacks to “draw encouragement and hope from the experiences of modern Jews.”