By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.

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One boy, standing alone in the corner, was silently watching the parents' power play.

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That would give the schools time to recruit staff and prospective parents confidence that their children would not be taught in the corner of a building site.

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Everybody cheered. (Applause.) So, yes, their parents and grandparents -- some of the graduates themselves -- had come from every corner of the globe.

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