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goods, they were peddlers; instead of
dealing in nice art, they sold used
goods or antiques. Since they couldn't
own land, they sold real estate.
"Even today, there are not many
Jews in heavy industry or the auto-
motive corporations ... they're not
part of managerial capitalism. Jews
always have stuck together — in the
traditional faMily businesses, keeping
out of the gentile world.
"Not being allowed to have the
good jobs right away, Jews just con-
tinued their education until they
landed something. That's why Jewish
people place such a heavy emphasis
on education for their children today.
And Jews always have developed
entrepreneurial skills."
Dellheim said Christians have
"formed stereotypes of Jews sucking
blood from Christians, leading the
moral decline of the population. Any
business successes by Jews seem to
result in an antisemitic backlash. We
must distance ourselves from this
insidious economic stereotype."
Whereas Shylock was loathed as a
money lender, Dellheim said,
American business would be in bad
shape today without banks and other
institutions from which to borrow
money. "When you analyze The
Merchant of Venice, you can determine
that Shylock really wasn't criticized
just for being a money lender," he
said. "It was because he was greedy
and loaned money at high interest
rates. But money lending was a risky
business and he deserved his share of
profit from it.
"Jesus saves, Moses invests,"
Dellheim mused at the many subtle
methods of antisemitic barbs. "If
Moses were around today, he proba-
bly would be involved in the dot-corn
companies and be worried about fluc-
tuating interest rates."
Dellheim told the story of Albert
Einstein's visit to the Warner Brothers
movie studio. Einstein received a per-
sonal tour from Jack Warner, the iras-
cible, often tyrannical spark plug of
the Warner family. Warner told
Einstein, "I have my own theory of
relativity: don't hire them."
Dellheim struck a responsive
chord with the audiences when he
pointed out that the Holocaust made
antisemitism "unfashionable" for a
while, after the allies and townspeople
came upon the bodies in the concen-
tration camps, exposing the Nazi
atrocities for the whole world to see.
"But antisemitism certainly didn't go
away ... It didn't die," he said.

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