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AMERICAN PLANOPEN ALL OF THE YEAR She is Scotch, no Jewish blood, and with has that clear-eyed frankness

Isabelle married Jan Hambourg, a concert violinist of Russian Jewish and English background who was known

In his view, since these major figures were slaves and are regarded as significant figures in Jewish

Whether Cather found the minister to perform this Protestant-Jewish marriage is not known, but she may

"Scandal," however, besides being a poor story, contains a savage portrait of the Jewish millionaire

He is an ogre, a caricature of the social-climbing, department-store-owning Jewish businessman.

They cite also other unflattering Jewish figures in her work: the Jewish baby described in one of her

Both stories in which these unattractive Jewish characters appear were written about the time Hambourg

All biblical citations come from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society

Excepting for the regular visits of a Jewish picture dealer, there were few intrusions upon their solitude

While "Esther"-a Jewish hero who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre-at least hints

Far from dissenting or disapproving, the great Jewish population of the city packed Cohan's Theater night

two principal actors got every night in "Potash and Perl-mutter Perlmutter ," they had to play the Jewish

HOWARD ARCHIE had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who

students' club to which she was introduced by Miss Adler, Bowers's morning accompanist, an intelligent Jewish

H OWARD A RCHIE had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who

students' club to which she was introduced by Miss Adler, Bowers's morning accompanist, an intelligent Jewish

illustrations 24 and 25) and the Henry Osborne Havemeyers of New York—to create the Nathanmeyers, the German Jewish

headdress of ornamented silk or linen worn by a bishop, originating in the metal forehead plate of the Jewish

He shot his keen Jewish eyes at me and said; "I'd say you were a darn good one!"

your Yellowstone trip of long ago—It's a little that kind of story.Pardon this spidery scrawl: Five Jewish

The postwar commercial development of the Outland engine falls to the Jewish arriviste Louie Marsellus

At the behest of the CTCA the YMCA, the YWCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the

Some scholars have argued that Louie Marsellus was suggested by Isabelle McClung's Jewish husband, Jan

negotiations were conducted by Saladin's brother, Saphadin. his little joke: The joke is in casting Jewish

and Numbers 9:11, bitter herbs are a part of the Passover meal, a reminder of the bitterness of the Jewish

in the moat one of the three beautiful golden balls which her father had bought for her of an old Jewish

Peter also glimpses his wife and his Jewish son-in-law, Louie Marsellus, "a little lacquer table between

A considerably higher proportion of the Jewish than the non-Jewish population served in the United States

Even Jewish attorney Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, commented that he saw

20 percent of France's Jewish population, fought for France (Vital 650).

Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War.

good, but there is something very sweet and quaint and convincing about the frank letters of that Jewish

Rosen's manner, and from comments she occasionally dropped, that the Jewish people had an altogether

He was the only unsuccessful member of a large, rich Jewish family.

88.5 philosophy] philosophy, and "keep up with what the new German and French men were doing." 88.6 Jewish

Rosen's manner, and from comments she occasionally dropped, that the Jewish people had an altogether

He was the only unsuccessful member of a large, rich Jewish family.

Prince Albert, we are told, never wholly trusted the Jewish poli-tician politician , but, after the death

Potash is the old-fashioned Jewish "THE JANGLING PARTNERS are a wonderful pair.

Potash (on the right), played by Barney Bernard, is the old-fashioned Jewish merchant, the unadulterated

All his early stories were about Jewish life.

.: I had the pleasure of assisting a Jewish boy through college.

In the article to which you refer, I think I spoke only of the Jewish boy born in New York City, and

turn of mind in his family to a particular place, however, but rather to a person: Louie, who is Jewish

relationship to place through themes of diaspora and exile.Howard Wettstein explains that, especially from a Jewish

occurs in 1876, and by 1881 the term was used by Encyclopaedia Britannica to refer specifically to Jewish

Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity. Ed. Howard Wettstein.

Home: Wharton, Cather, the Jews, and the First World War," Susan Meyer focuses on the Professor's Jewish

Most of us, in these United States, cannot even claim as much as the Jewish lad whose father, ennobled

In “Scandal,” Siegmund Stein, a Jewish “department store millionaire,” attempts to fool the public by

Both “Scandal” and “Ardessa” contain uncomfortable stereotypes of Jewish characters.11 And the portrait

“Willa Cather and the Geography of Jewishness.”

I understand that Jewish tourists are admitted to Italy and courteously treated. Mrs.

She has never given me any indication of feeling alarm about the Jewish situation in Italy.

Miss Overton was in Sorrento for a good in the early part of the summer, but and I think the Jewish question

capitalist society can be reimagined by reading its fragmentary forms against the grain of progress.The Jewish

Cather’s representation of this Jewish character is deeply marked by an ambivalence that Susan Meyer

shown as being at work in the representation of Louie in The Professor’s House.The Palmers were not Jewish

Nathanmeyer Jewish.

in Thea’s fate” (8) and concludes her longer reading of “The Diamond Mine” by suggesting that the Jewish

with other early modernists, Schroeter adds-stereotypes of the "poolroom" variety that identify Jewishness

One then wonders why she gave that character a "neutral" name and omitted any reference to Jewishness

Although Cather's Jewish friends and acquaintances were for the most part assimilated, secular Jews,

A lengthy article on Jewish immigrants in New York, Hendrick's "The Great Jewish Invasion," appeared

"The Great Jewish Invasion." McClure's Magazine 28 (Jan. 1907): 307-21.Miller, Robert K.

For example, the third-person narrator uses Jewish stereotypes to describe Becky: she is “a thin, tense-faced

Despite the stock Jewish stereotypes Cather deploys, she also creates in Becky and Rena two sympathetic

York universities, 'violently inoculated with Freud,' and most likely of foreign descent, perhaps Jewish

desires.Beyond this public outburst (more noted now for its nativism—the young critic is of "German, Jewish

Brill himself, the Austrian Jewish immigrant who translated Freud into English and headed the American

In Louis Lambert he draws on these in a benign way, inventing a Jewish ancestor for the young woman with

Her features showed Jewish beauty in the purest form: those oval lines, so expansive and virginal, have

They are not clannish and selfish like mostmany big rich Jewish families.Edith Lewis sends her warnest

In addition to being ambitious and internationally connected, Louie is also Jewish, a fact that enables

While the Jewish banker, unlike the storekeeper, was beyond the immediate experience of the average American

, he learned about that evil figure from Greenback leaders who warned of international Jewish banking

Peter's resistance to his Jewish son-in-law by suggesting that Louie is not really "foreign" at all,

adequately account for the ambivalence of Marsellus's portrait, nor does it explore the relevance of Jewish

engineer, and one of his draftsmen; a lawyer from the District Attorney's office; and Zablowski, a young Jewish

It's exactly like the Jewish high priest in the old Bible dictionaries."

Zablowski, the young Jewish doctor, smiled and shook his head.

He married a burgeoning Jewish beauty, Fanny Reizenstein, the daughter of the importer, and he hung her

Although of Jewish descent, Rubenstein's work is typically Russian.

New waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe—Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish rather than the

He was, indeed, from Paris, but there was not a drop of Jewish blood in his veins, and he dated from

blackballed at a club, had left and lived by an exceedingly questionable traffic in London, assuming a Jewish