Building jewish bridges. Welcome. Thank you. Good morning. Lets just jump in and ask you what is house judaica and what does it it do . First and foremost its an Independent School non denominational. Thoughtful ideas, challenging ideas and providing dialog for adults in the bay area for jews and non jews. The world house judaica is not english word. Fred rosenbaum our founding director was a graduate student at u. C. Bshgly and he was studying the lair house had it emerged in germany in the interwar period between world war i and world war ii. The word lair house is german for learning house which is basically he brew for madrash where people come and thern from each other and talk to each other and he was inspired looking at the lair house that was formed for adults in germany to learn about jewish resist rooe, jewish culture, floss nooe. Without religious denomination and without pro propoening. It was reborn in berkley 1974. Wonderful. And john well come back to more about house ju
Is now that we can fully search 60,000 books printed from 1473, and 1700, i now know that shakespeare did not invent 1700 words. What we will learn over time is that number is going to come way down. Lexicographers at the Oxford English dictionary went for the first book they read when they wanted to use the word first, shakespeare borrowed things all the time and it is no bad thing to say he likes to borrow. That made him a great writer. This works here. Look at this. Three words attributed to william shakespeare. Oh my gosh. Let me think. He has a lot of negations. On house on household. I am trying to think. Certainly have encountered them in the past. Michael whitmore. This is a phd qualifier. Stump the professor. The answers are all down spirit. Used as a verb in macbeth is definitely shakespeare but it is also said he created words like bedroom, marketing, lonely used in a particular sense. If shakespeare invented the modern meaning of lonely my heart breaks, i think that is amaz
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Trauma and figuring out how we as americans had come to that point where we could be living so close to poverty without recognizing it on a daily basis. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by heres to lifelong friendships and partnerships of all meaningful kinds. Heres to love that lasts yearin, yearout. For more than five generations, lincoln financial has helped people plan for the future because this is what you do for people you love. Lincoln financial, youre in charge. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the f
Atlantic will take shape so our collection holds a large quantity of items that includes the moment as it comes to the United States so the colonies of jamestown. Said shakespeares world this planting itself in north america. That is complicated history also what was good and bad. When he wrote the tempest he clearly had a pamphlet about a shipwreck in bermuda but makes reference to the new world so he never visited but when he uses the phrase like a brave new world that there is someplace to overturn our expectations and that is something that is on his imagination. And from the archives to the theater. This is a copy of a copy of the Laurence Oliviers film 1945 of henry v this gives us the notes it is interesting because that was treated during the Second World War from one of the battle scenes this was viewed as a piece of propaganda of the Second World War so much of this is triumphant to the library of record store in the expression of shakespeares work is something theyre interes