Boom, what was the original pronunciation?

Well, I was standing as back in the old days.

It was Sam the butcher and Joe the barber,

and my great grandfather was a chazin, which is a singer of holy songs, like Cantor, would be the term now.

And when my grandfather came to Ellis Island, he didn't speak English, and they wrote it up as H-A-S-A-S-A-N and so I've lived my life being

thought of as an Arab being persecuted at times by Jews I'm actually Jewish and

I belong to the Jews persecuted you I've had experiences where people made yes because of your name because of the spelling did you have to let them hey you

Ashole I'm one of you well first I'd say you're you know

know being a big get it and then I'd say by the way I'm Jewish what did they say

I'm so sorry they would look at me and then they'd say you don't look Sephardic I'm Ashkenazi but anyway you know like act with some dignity and compassion and kindness.

Yeah, especially for no reason. It's not like you did something

anti-Semitic, right? The first time I was actually physically assaulted was

during the Six-Day War back in the 60s when I was in elementary school on a

stairwell in Queens, New York. You were assaulted because of your ethnicity? I was

assaulted by Jews who thought I was a

a assaulted by Jews who thought I was an Arab.

Jesus Christ.

And they attacked me and I threw them down.

I grew up in my father's hardware business,

so I kind of like knew how to pick up 100 pound bags of rock salt and stuff.

So they like fell on the floor and then I said you schmuck some Jewish.

I like how you schmuck that way you let them know.

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