he is pretty effective, and very charming. when he started talking, and actuall y all the way through.  But when he was complaining of antisemitism in the States in his youth, he had nothing on me..  I remember my six grade class in public school when the teacher isolatd the four jews ahd banished us to the back corner.  and she never called on us.  When she was told that eveny kid in the class had to participate in the annual play, she had jews dancing in the back.  Me and Sandy Shapiro and Alan Feldstein and i Think it was Tala Gurrell..so we did some ridiculous country dance and had no concerns for a being in the last scene in the back of the stage where we were part of the scenery.

i still know the steps because we practiced the stupid dance over and over while the rest of the class practiced their complex parts in the long play.

the year after we had a teacher who wanted to elicit our creativity from all of us.  I wrote all the monthly class plays and starred of course in most of them.  

But I still remember how our sixth grade teacher peered down on the jews from above her pince nez and refused to answer our questions.

We saw no point in telling our parents – they were having similar troubles on a more grand scale.