Lawrence
Hall, HSG
“Anglo-Saxon Students Would Not Like
to Be Taught by a Jew”
Cited in
Stanley Kunitz Lyrics, Songs, and Albums |
Genius
To the
Privileged Youth of Columbia University:
As a child
of situational poverty
I am so grateful
for all my Jewish teachers
Including
Moses
Joshua
Jeremiah
Samuel
David
Solomon
Jesus,
Mary, and Joseph
Saint
Peter and the others in The Twelve
Saint Paul
Elie
Weisel
Chaim
Potok
Herman
Wouk
Leon Uris
Franz
Kafka
Leonard
Cohen
Anne Frank
Bernard
Malamud
Isaac
Bashevis Singer
Philip
Roth
Osip
Mandelstam
Saul
Bellow
Isaac
Asimov
Woody
Allen
Edna
Ferber
Yip
Harburg
George
Cukor
Oscar
Hammerstein
Alan
Lerner
Joseph
Brodsky
Rob Morrow
Carl
Reiner
Rod
Serling
Franz
Werfel
Alan Arkin
Claire
Bloom
Leonard
Nimoy
Chaim
Topol
Ed Asner
Mel Brooks
Peter Falk
Werner
Klemperer
Jack
Klugman
Walter
Matthau
Tony
Randall
Mel Torme
John
Banner
Kirk
Douglas
Lorne
Greene
Eli
Wallach
Sam
Wanamaker
Morey
Amsterdam
Leo Genn
Otto
Preminger
Jack Benny
Leslie
Howard
Ernst
Lubitsch
Cecil B.
DeMille
Mortimer
Adler
Allen
Bloom
Harold
Bloom
Irving
Berlin
Boris
Pasternak
Emil
Ludwig
Eric
Wolfgang Korngold
Elmer
Bernstein
Max
Steiner
George
Gershwin
Dimitri
Tiomkin
Samuel
Fuller
Alexander
Korda
Zoltan
Korda
Emeric
Pressburger
Erich von
Stroheim
Billy
Wilder
William
Wyler
Fred
Zinnemann
J. J.
Abrams
Peter
Bogdanovich
Michael
Curtiz
Stanley
Donen
Stanley
Kramer
Howard
Caine
Leon Askin
Robert
Clary
Dinah
Shore
Stephen
Sondheim
Volodymyr Zelinsky
Simon
Schama
Louise
Gluck
Siegfried
Sassoon
Isaac
Rosenberg
Vasily
Grossman
Stanley
Kubrick
Viktor
Frankl
Jonah
Steven
Spielberg
Leonard
Bernstein
And more,
so many more, a cloud of witnesses
Whose
names are written in gold on a scroll in Heaven
But
somehow, in this world of beauty and truth
And humanity’s
aspirations to the good
All you
have found are bullhorns, trash fires, chants
Clinched
fists, obscenities, lies, and shrieking hate
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