stand away from the stand. i will fight for the bill of rights. officer, take this man away from the stand. and then i got the idea that you could do something that would make your society a little better. my family had some reservations about this, but then when i married at the end of college, my family said if she wants to be a lawyer, let her try. if she can t succeed, she will have a husband to support her. that s me waiting to get my diploma. very happy. my brother and cousins call her bubbe, the yiddish word for grandmother. it s what we ve always called her. bubbe? yes? do you know if you have fake sugar like splenda?
could be between him and chuck berry, and you got kool herc for hip hop. anthony: feel good? kool herc: very good. lloyd: historically, from the last third of the 19th century into about 1920, the second language spoken in the bronx was german. from about 1930 to about 1960, the second language spoken in the bronx was yiddish. from about 1965 onward, the second language spoken in the bronx is spanish, and that s the way it is today. anthony: it s got a reputation as a tough place. crime, street gangs, a lot of which goes back to the way it was, and some of which, well, like i said, it s got a reputation as being tough. the bronx is, let s face it, a big blank space in a lot of people s minds. even people like me who live what, ten minutes away?
synagogue where she grew up. weiss writes about this in her book how to fight anti-semitism, about what it means to really be a jew in america. bari weiss joins me you write that the shooting at the synagogue in pittsburgh was a wake-up call for you. it was. i grew up on the mythology, like so many other american jews, that this country was what my grandparents called yiddish for the golden land, like the streets are paved with gold in america. and really, in a lot of ways, it was. it was. america has been a unique diasphera in jewish history. the jews here have thrived and had freedom in no other way that we have had in thousands of years in history. but i always assumed, even though i had little incidents, people calling me a kike, people telling me to pick up pennies, those were really the exception. i thought anti-semitism was
not long ago, his great grandson told the the story of their family s escape. and took his chances in america. he set foot on ellis island on january 7th, 1903 with $8 to his name. fluent in polish, russian and yiddish, he understood no english. the glosser family started a business, selling goods from a horse and buggy. eventually opened up their own haberdashery and a whole chain of supermarkets that ultimately was listed on the stock exchange. in the span of some 80 years, this family emerged from poverty in a hostile country to become prosperous merchant, scholars and most important, american citizens. the reason we know about mr. glosser and the generations of his family who have gone on to thrive in america is because that family history was published last year as an op-ed, but it was basically an open letter from the uncle in that