The only reference to Jews which will appear in Thomas Y. Crowell Co.'s* new edition of Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases† when it appears next month will be: "Jew. In the original edition Roget included the word Jew in several groups of synonyms. In this printing all uncomplimentary racial allusions have been omitted."
Last week the American Hebrew received many a Jew's congratulations for accomplishing this deletion. Its Associate Editor Walter Hart Blumenthal last February flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer,...
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