Bertell ollman biography of albert

  • I was born in Milwaukee to Russian Jewish parents, who never went to synagogue or kept kosher, but often spoke Yiddish at home and considered themselves Jews.
  • Bertell Ollman's How to Take an Exam & Remake the World has a double agenda, which Ollman candidly acknowledges: to offer advice about studying.
  • Outstanding, anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman is a professor of politics at New York University where he teaches.

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    Taking Exams, Taking on Capitalism

    Margaret Mikesell Tabb teaches English at John Jay College, City University of New York. Kathryn Cressida Tabb is a freshman at the University of Chicago. William K. Tabb teaches economics at Queens College, City University of New York and is the author of The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2001).

    Bertell Ollman, How to Take an Exam…& Remake the World (Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 2001), 191 pages, $19.99 paper.

    Since How to Take an Exam…& Remake the Worldby Bertell Ollman sets out to build a bridge between generations, addressing the needs of both students and radical professors, it made sense to evaluate it from both points of view. We therefore welcomed this three-part review by two educators and their college student daughter.

    —The Editors

    Part I: Introduction by English Professor Mom

    Bertell Ollman’s How to Take an Exam&h

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    Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People

    By Bertell Ollman

    Bertell Ollman is Professor of Political Science at NYU. He earned his Ph.D. In 1967.

    “Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, whenhuman dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities becomeirrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe”. ---Elie Wiesel, acceptance speech, Nobel Prize for Peace, December 10, 1986.

    Did you ever wonder what your last thought would be just before you died or believed you might die? Well, I did, and a few years ago in the waning moments before going under the knife for a life threatening operation I got my answer. As the nurses wheeled me into the operating room, what burst upon my consciousness was not, as might be expected, the fear of dying but a terrible angst at the idea of dying a Jew. I was appalled to finish my li

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    Roger Albert


    So, after I asked in a recent brev for ideas of what I should write about, Jack Minard sent me this:

    Write about the difference between political or social organization and economic organization. I.e. do democracy and capitalism have any hope of co-existing well? Always seemed like a bad marriage to me! Doesn’t capitalism depend on inequality while democracy would do best with complete equality of opportunity? Of course there are differences in people. Some “cream” will always rise to the top… your thoughts?

    Well, I started writing a post in respond to Jack’s comment a few days ago and before long inom was up to 5000 words and I felt that inom had barely touched the subject. A friend suggested a series of blog posts and I’m leaning in that direction although others have suggested that I should write a book. At 72, a book seems a little daunting although I surely have enough material to write one. Blog posts seem more manageable. inom don’t know. I’