Epstein Secrets

401 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface: Ideology as Biography—A life of continuous change We 4391 Pages 9 Part I: From Brooklyn to Cambridge (with stops in New Haven and Washington Chapter 1: Born and religiously educated in Brooklyn We 15,669 Pages 27 Chapter 2: My Secular Education—Brooklyn and Yale We 3811 Pa

s unique among American Jewish neighborhoods in that it has always been Jewish. Unlike the neighborhoods of Manhattan—such as the Lower East side and Harlem, which have had changing ethnic populations—Boro Park has always been, and remains, dominantly Jewish. The first occupants of the small tract houses

ot but also because a tongue once helped me beat off a would-be mugger. I was coming from my parent’s house in Brooklyn and heading back to school in New Haven on the New York subway. My mother, as usual, gave me some food to take back to school. It was a solidly frozen, homungous tongue. I didn’t really wan

Arab countries I visited, and safer than I am here in the United States.” Within several months of making that comment, Malcolm X was gunned down in Harlem. Several years after Malcolm X was murdered, Dean Archie Epps edited a book entitled “Malcolm X speaks at Harvard.” He included the speech that I in

a in the 1970s—I met him as an undergrad in Madison, WI. I attended his graduate seminars in Madison and spent a lot of time with him while he was in New Haven. He guest-conducted the Hartford Symphony (where I now work) twice in the past few years. (He is 83 now.) I spent hours and hours in “lab orchestra”

d, no less important, watched my father teach me. My father eventually retired from his civil service job and became a junior high school teacher in Harlem. He loved his new job and, I have to assume, became a good teacher. I say it that way because he was certainly not a good teacher for me, at least no