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That's chump change to Rich, who, since arriving in the U.S. during World War II, has amassed a fortune estimated at well over $1 billion. An average student and self-described "business machine," Rich dropped out of New York University to learn the commodities business from fellow European Jewish immigrants at Philipp Bros. He was a quick study, thriving in the high-stakes, split-second world of commodities trading, in which your demanding customer might be a Third World dictator and information is the hottest commodity...
...perhaps, but a peace that makes sense to Israeli voters who are disappointed with Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It's an image deeply at odds with Sharon's reputation as an ironfisted, extremist adventurer, the man most associated with Israel's disastrous war in Lebanon and with the defiant Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
...Though at first sight the course appears light-hearted, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse says she hopes to seriously investigate the moral dimension of humor and the Jewish contribution to it in a small, discussion-oriented setting...
...Wisse says the course will begin by looking at theoretical works on humor, followed closely by selections from Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer and other Jewish writers. The course will conclude by looking at Kafka...
...early 1990s, after the fall of communism, Prague was a location of American fascination as well, particularly to Jewish Americans, who saw something of their own past in the city. Thomas labels the city as a "state of mind...