Thank you for your patience. Were delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow is down, but i do want to make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our oldtimers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience, so were delighted be that as well. Those who have never been here before i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for a very long time, 154 years, and we are Historical Society that prides ourselves on being very, very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. We encourage you to come and explore it. We have exhibitions which you may have got an glimpse of right behind the wall, history of abolition in brooklyn, called in pursuit of freedom. Theres an exhibition i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on
And, you know, theres a great deal of antisemitism, theres discrimination across the line, and that is demonstrated in how we treat our veterans when they return back to this country and homelessness, children and women and men are hungry. And so many people in America Today, i think, are really afraid of whats happening. And part of that, i think, that mr. Trump has been able to hit on is the kind of fear that people are dealing with, but they are unable to deal with realities of what we all have to deal with. And i was wondering if you could speak about that a bit. Well, quite i think that was a very eloquent statement, and i dont feel as though i have anything to add to that. [laughter] yeah. So let me ask one sorry, did you want what does ghetto mean . Whats the definition of the word . Well [inaudible] she asked what does ghetto mean literally. I mean, ghetto basically has meant Different Things in different eras. And in the book i actually talk about the way that the word also ge
Is detrstroying older ways of le and that attraattracts people o gives recesenment. And the jews are tied to capitalism. When it comes to the way people think of capitalism, one of the interesting theme is i found when premodern thinkers thought about finance and money making they connected it to the jews because of their history as merchants in the middle ages. And i found when i was writing an earlier book, the way in which modern thinkers thought about capitalism was the way they thought about jews. And then there was the fact that because of jews commercial background and a number of other reasons, when jews found themselves in situations in the modern world where they had equality of legal opportunity, they did well in capitalistic societies. And that led to envy and in the wake of the holocaust, jews themselves, while they thought among themselves saw this dis o disproportion, they tended to die it down. And in the decades after the holocaust, their tended to be less of it. In re
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Said jews had been intimately connected with the history of capitalism. In ways in which people have thought about capitalism and the actual practice. When it comes to the way people think of capitalism, one of the interesting themes is that i found with three modern thinkers the of commerce about financing and money making they connected with the jews with a deep historical reasons as merchants in general with the middle ages and often enough when i was writing an earlier book that the way modern intellectuals thought about capitalism was related to the way they thought about jews. Then the fact because of their commercial background for a number of other reasons, when jews found themselves in situations of the modern world with a modicum of legal opportunity theyve would be disproportionately both the and capitalist cited societies because in some cultures especially those suspicious of Commerce World where it was felt to the issues were doing better than others sometimes lead to env