Robert Lehrman
By Robert Lehrman
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Opinion There’s Nothing Funny About The Chico Marx Presidency
On trial in “Duck Soup” for stealing war plans from the wealthy Mrs. Teasdale, Chicolini, played by Chico Marx, hears Mrs. Teasdale say, “But I saw you with my own eyes!” As she has. “Well, who you gonna believe?” Chico shoots back. “Me or your own eyes?” There’s a reason that joke gets laughs more…
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Opinion Relatively Easy: How To Produce A Hassle-Free Family Reunion
In 1886, a scared 16-year old named Menachem Mendel Lehrman made his way to the Russian border and sneaked into Germany. In Hamburg he took a ship to New York, a trip that left him so sick he couldn’t write home for a year. Back in Belarus, his family decided he was dead and sat…
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Opinion GOP Bigots Next Plan To Gut Legal Immigration
We know it now as one of the most scurrilous proposals in American history. But give those two Pennsylvania politicians credit. When Democratic Sen.David Reed and Republican House Member Albert Johnson introduced what became the Immigration Act of 1924, eviscerating legal immigration to the United States for Jews, Italians and others — and banning Asians…
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Opinion In the Rough: How Jewish Country Club Can Honor Barack Obama
In 1924, Emory Keene, the proprietor of White Roe Farm in the Catskills, sent out a postcard about his lakeside resort, where the air was “pure and invigorating.” He pledged to meet trains if “notified in time.” Keene added a last line, though: “Hebrews and consumptives not accommodated.” I’ll tell you later how I know…
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