Sentences with phrase «jewish immigrant»

Depending on whether the theory is aimed at religious Jews or all Jewish people, regardless of their religion or lack thereof, the trend for many Jewish immigrant families to gradually turn atheist over the generations could be argued to not fit in with the theory either.

ROBERT NATKIN, born in 1930 in Chicago, grew up in an extended Russian - Jewish immigrant family.

Robert Scull was born in New York City to Russian - Jewish immigrant parents who had anglicized their family name from Sokolnikoff.

Born Lenore Krassner to Russian - Jewish immigrant parents, she studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York, receiving a grounding in painting, drawing and design.

For 20 years, against the better judgment of his Russian - Jewish immigrant family, Louis led a quiet life as a Cubist painter.

The artist, Sheba Sharrow, was born in Brooklyn in 1926, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and was raised in Chicago.

Norman's experience as a Polish - Jewish immigrant helped to shape his understanding of American society, and he often seemed to observe life in the United States with the shrewd and detached eye of an outsider.

«From the Margins» juxtaposes his paintings with those of a contemporary, painter Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), who was from a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional reception.

He had just dropped out of Yale University, where he stuck out a mile as an impoverished Russian Jewish immigrant.

Leslie was born in 1927 to German - Jewish immigrant parents and raised in the Bronx.

What explains the affinity this ex-Soviet, American, Jewish immigrant in his 30s feels for this gay, older Englishwoman who makes her life in the countryside?

In it, Rich tells a timeless tale about a Jewish immigrant who is preserved for a hundred years in a large vat of pickle juice and then reanimated.

I think the use of dialect does slow you down as most reviewers have noted; however, I think it added to the experience of being a Lithuanian - Jewish immigrant in South Africa!

Eloquently rendered in art and text, this graphic - novel - style picture book relates the story of young Jewish immigrant Oskar who, after Kristallnacht, is sent to New York, but all he has with him is an address for his aunt.

Readers unfamiliar with Yiddish terms will find the glossary invaluable, and two bibliographies (one for kids, one for adults) point to resources on the Jewish immigrant experience and Jewish history in general.

Lush Life is set on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the old, largely Jewish immigrant neighborhood where Price's grandparents lived - and which today is a popular slumming spot for a young, mostly white crowd.

David Bezmozgis» Natasha: and Other Stories, seven stories about growing up a poor Russian Jewish immigrant in Toronto, are so Russian in tone they should be read with a glass of tea at hand and a cube of sugar between one's teeth.

Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis David Bezmozgis» Natasha: and Other Stories, seven stories about growing up a poor Russian Jewish immigrant in Toronto are so Russian in tone they should be read with a glass of tea at hand and a cube of sugar between one's teeth.

You play as Lena Brodsky, a Jewish immigrant in 1907 New York.

In the case of Imelda Staunton, who plays Elliot's horribly overbearing Russian - Jewish immigrant mother, she's such a stock caricature that the bottom drops out of the movie every time she waddles into view, and, as Elliot's father, Henry Goodman is only slightly less stock.

In a petition to the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in 1787, the German - Jewish immigrant Jonas Phillips enunciated what to my mind should still be the proper approach of American Jews to the question of religion in American life.

This understanding of politics is eloquently articulated by Hannah Arendt, the German - Jewish immigrant to America who is often identified as an «independent thinker» by liberals and conservatives alike.

My father, a Jewish immigrant who had lived in France since the early 1920s, was arrested in May 1941 and sent to a transit camp outside Paris.

Adelson, a former reporter and mortgage broker and the son of Ukrainian - Jewish immigrants, was hit hard during the financial crisis in 2008,

Born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a tough neighborhood of Boston, sharing a one - room tenement with his parents and three siblings.

«We are sitting here, in part, because of two Jewish immigrants who in 1939 in August signed the most important letter perhaps in the history of the United States,» he added.

Concerned that large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, especially Jewish immigrants, were «polluting» the nation, anti-immigrant spokesmen like attorney Madison Grant asserted the whiteness of Jesus to justify calls for exclusionary legislation.

It ranks second for Hindu and Jewish immigrants, and seventh for Muslim immigrants.

He compares the change to his own father's boyhood culture, in tenements among recent Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Somehow, more than fifty years after Vatican II, the grandchildren and great - grandchildren of Jewish immigrants have inherited a cultural fear of Roman Catholic clergy.

Aranygaluska, also called golden dumpling cake, butter puffs, and monkey bread, has been extolled by Jewish immigrants from Hungary for years.

Speaking of origins, I read on Smithsonian.com that food historian Robert F. Moss believes fried green tomatoes may not have gotten their start in the Southern U.S., but rather in the Midwest and Northeast, with links to Jewish immigrants.

Schmaltz was the oil of choice for Eastern European Jewish immigrants to America in the late 1800's.

The son of German Jewish immigrants, Warren was a succesful attorney and community leader.

Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Polish Jewish immigrants, Marion Kozak, and Ralph Miliband (died 1994); a Marxist intellectual who was a native of Brussels that fled Belgium during World War II.

This demographic shift, augmented by Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, has transformed much of the Jewish landscape of the city, according to Michael Tobman, a political consultant who has helped advise campaigns and organizations in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.

Maud Russell was the daughter of German Jewish immigrants and married a wealthy banker.

White, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, had struggled through hard work and cultivating powerful New Dealers to reach an influential position in the US Treasury.

At one time home mostly to Italian and Jewish immigrants, the neighborhood now boasts a large West Indian population.

Axelrod was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, and Seward Park High School set him on a path towards realizing his full talents.

Ulrich blasted Trump's first and second executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, comparing it to the historic discrimination Catholic and Jewish immigrants once experienced.

Both my Ph.D. and postdoctoral advisors were children of Jewish immigrants: Fred Brauer and Simon Levin, the winner of the 2004 Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences.

Their dream, to provide quality medical care for Jewish immigrants in surroundings where their language and customs were understood, was achieved in 1926 when The Miriam received a charter from the Rhode Island state legislature.

My grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants.

Born Leon Marcus Uris in Baltimore, MD, in 1924, he was the second child of Wolf William Uris and the former Alma Blumberg, both Polish - Jewish immigrants.

And yet, Jewish immigrants and migrants have often found themselves in small towns scattered across the heartland.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is a true story of Pino Lella who was a seventeen year of Italian boy living in Millan whose parents sent him to live in a monastery in the Alps where he and his fifteen year old brother led Jewish immigrants, downed British pilots and others to freedom over the Alps to Switzerland during World War II.

Fears very similar to those Huntington expresses were raised about the Irish Catholic immigrants of the 1840s, about German immigrants, Italian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, Slavic immigrants, and so on.

Born in Chicago, Illinois as the only son of Jewish immigrants, Dr. Lee Shulman fondly recalls his early years spent in a yeshiva high school and at his parent's delicatessen.

The Foundation is named after Lilo's parents, Caroline and Sigmund Schott, German - Jewish immigrants who escaped Nazi Germany with their daughter and built successful lives in the United States.