What it is to be a Jew. I'll try to make sense out... out of it. What it is to be a Jew. What it is to be a Jew, it... it changes every decade or so. There... I was... I was a Jew as a kid. I was a Jew in college. I was a Jew in England. I was a Jew in Israel. I'm... am I a Jew when I'm at work here? I don't know. But I grew up in the '30s and '40s, I'm not very conscious of the '30s – I was a small child. In a decade when anti-Semitism was... was very much alive in America.  Unashamedly alive. There was bias and discrimination everywhere, in the hotels, in the medical schools, in the restaurants, in the big corporations. And I imbibed the communal sense of unfairness and injustice and... and fear, I suppose. I don't think I was ever afraid of violence, but it was a fearful thing to be considered such an alien by so many of the big institutions that ran American life, and so I... I imbibed this sense of injustice in... when I began to be a conscious being and... which would be in the early '40s.

And I was tremendously sensitive to prejudice... as were many of the kids around me. I wasn't alone in this.