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Harbin’s mayor welcomed participants by citing esteemed Jews such as J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller (neither of whom was Jewish). He then announced that “the world’s money is in the pockets of the Americans, and the Americans’ money is in the pockets of the Jews. This is the highest acclaim and praise to Jewish wisdom.”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat
Tom Wolfe • A Man in Full: A Novel
“You are all taking interest from your own people.” And I called a great assembly to deal with them, 8and said to them, “As far as we were able, we have bought back our Jewish kindred who had been sold to other nations; but now you are selling your own kin, who must then be bought back by us!” They were silent, and could not find a word to say. 9So
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
It is true that the characters in the Merchant make greater claims to sympathy and humanity than those in its influential predecessor, Christopher Marlowe’s Jew of Malta (ca. 1589), in which not only the title character, but Christian and Muslim protagonists as well, are cynical distillations of villainy. But these claims are just one symptom of a
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“Joe the Jew.”
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
Miss Somerville nodded. ‘A Jew, I suppose?’ ‘Well, he said he was, but he had fair hair. I can’t help wondering whether some of them go round pretending to be Jewish just to get the benefits. The Quakers are giving away fortunes in relief, I understand.
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
The Money That Stayed in the House: Never did the Baal Shem keep money in his house overnight. When he returned from a journey, he paid all the debts which had accumulated in his absence and distributed whatever he had left, among the needy. Once he brought a large amount of money back from a journey, paid his debts, and gave the rest away. But
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The lender kept the biggest piece, the stock. After all, he was the stockholder.