How to pronounce “edith” in English

-Would you be mine?Edith, this is my assistant.-I don't think she's the right choice.

Without further ado Iíll turn it over to Edith and weíll have some Q&A afterward.Edith Sheffer: Thank you, Scott.Thank you all so much for coming here today.

Micro steps can have far reaching results.Edith Sheffer: So, compared to international relations today, the Cold War, in retrospect, can appear to be a simpler, steadier time.And nothing represents this so clearly as the Berlin Wall which remains the stark symbol of East, West conflict, conflict.

Sheís smuggling toy ornaments which were masses produced in the area Iím studying.Edith Sheffer: And then here you have workers crossing illegally.And hundreds and hundreds of people were crossing every day in the late 1940s.

And in a television interview about this soccer game, one man from the region just rejected it out of hand saying, ìNo, I donít believe you.îEdith Sheffer: So the memory of the border is as important to understanding it today as what actually happened.But what I think is most significant about these mass crossings, hereís another picture of the invisible line, is that they were extremely one sided and extremely short lived.

So, although these crowds easily overwhelmed US and Western border forces, the next day border discipline returned to normal each time.Edith Sheffer: So you have four mass crossings and then four returns to normalcy which I think makes the sensation of these mass crossingsall the more revealing.

And itís the adjustment of these post war populations that then enabled the border to persist and expand.Edith Sheffer: Now this argument is very easy to make for the immediate post war period when border policy and the two German stateswere in extreme flux.

For example, hereís a document from East Germanyís stasi or secret police and it describes the antics of three young men who within 6 months in 1982, crossed the border 45 times.Edith Sheffer: They were stealing mines from the border fortifications and selling them to West German and American service men on the other side.So this document shows 45 crossings in 6 months, contrast that with 72 reported escapes.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: Even in the 70s and 80s the border was plagued by malfunctions, defunct trip wires, signal fences, heavy snowfall

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: Crossing on a dare or something like that.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: Yeah, absolutely.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: Yeah and exactly as you say itís amazing to me two different cultures formed out of one formerly similar region.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: wow. Edith Sheffer: Yeah, youíve just made a lot of really interesting linkages between different phenomenonís.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: Yeah. No, thatís a great question, too.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingEdith Sheffer: On the cause of people living on the other side.

local whiskey schnapps because Europeans planted a taste in these parts for a scented brew I give Samuel the bottleEdith rises to her feet and grabs two small glasses and hands them to Samuel He pours me a full glass and then pourshimself one too we touch glasses and down the whiskey the whiskey is harsh

chiso in America he nods then Edith s are you Christian no I am NOT I sayEdith is disappointed I told you he is not Christian chiso says he is JewishJewish yes what does Jewish chiso tells her mother an EBO that being Jewish is like being Christian only without the

Yes weíre married. Presenter: So thatís the connection, thatís how we got her to come to Google.Edithís an assistant Professor of history at Stanford University.She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in history and literature and then attended Berkeley for her PhD studying under Jerry Feldman.

I've given up on that, OK?And Edith would tell the story so beautiful of how frail and weak she was.

They always looked at the place first.So Edith Rigby is a really interesting woman.

And the father is dominant, but he is incapable of having a really mature conversation with the daughter.And Edith becomes a really strong woman.I remember when we were shooting, we would have weeks and weeks of Edith being scared.

And that was most unladylike.So that's what Edith was like.And she does the whole suffragette number.

Just hearing-- You mean just poor etiquette of-- Yeah, just talking to each other.It was built by Edith Wharton.

Yeah, maybe. The very beginning.Lucille tries to protect Edith.That is a statement that is open to interpretation.

Lucille, the longer she's in the house, the bigger she gets-- even with her clothing-- That happened to me too.And that Edith is-- because by virtue of being of of this position or American, or young and pretty, she must be a little butterfly,

Almost never was the radio on.Where did you discover Edith Massey?

with your wealth you can have many wives you can even have other African wiveshmm I look at Edith who has been staring at me her mouth open and when our eyes meet she looks away I wonder if herhusband embarrasses her I must remember to ask jizo later I wonder whether chiso should explain the real situation to her

Jewish yes what does Jewish chiso tells her mother an EBO that being Jewish is like being Christian only without theworship of Jesus Edith looks alarmed tears form in her eyes she sayssomething in ebo what did she say I asked she explains that her mother fears

that without the help of Jesus I may become a tool of the devil even if I don't want to because the devil istricky Sh I tell Edith that the devil won't get me never all she knows isIslam and Christianity chiso says of a mother she thinks that if you are in Christian or Muslim you must follow juju

Islam and Christianity chiso says of a mother she thinks that if you are in Christian or Muslim you must follow jujuI look Edith straight in the eyes no juju I say no cheese oh let's forth witha run another round of ebo supporting her words with a complex series of hand motions and facial expressions that

I've given up on that, OK?But if you listen to Edith talking, you would realize how divine we are as a species.

I've given up on that, OK?tell you the story of Edith and you go like, oh, my god, he's actually right.

We wanted to ski all the way across the Antarctic continent from the edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf, which you see there--and we got a nice letter from Edith Ronne; that ice shelf is named after her-- and we wanted to go to the South Poleand then from there go to McMurdo and catch the very last cruise ship home, which was February 14, Valentine's Day.

So empathy is part of gaining power.This is Greg Miller and Edith Chen at Northwestern.

And that's what the passaggio is.French R's are left to Edith Piaf and the crowd.

outside of Berlin. It was, in fact, the American military that erected the first border barriers between the two East, West Germanys.Iíll leave other juicy anecdotes to Edith but be prepared to be surprised about what happened at the beginnings of the iron curtain.Without further ado Iíll turn it over to Edith and weíll have some Q&A afterward.

So, especially, in this early period, the American and Soviet military governments had no plans for this border.They were busy catching Naziís Edith Sheffer: They were busy rebuilding the economy, they were busy implementing new systems of government, the border was not a priority.And, so, because of this vacuum of power this allowed local government to take initiative and shape what this border actually meant.

And the walls of buildings literally close in around him just like they do in dreams.The actress who plays Mal also plays Edith Piaf in the movie about her life.

calabar calabar as a day's travel away samuel was raised there he explains thatneither he nor his wife Edith ever visit calabar they want to stay far away from his first wife whom they fear will harmthem if given the chance sounds like a good idea I say Samuel nods in agreement and asked what will you do to protect my

part is I cannot protect her in calabar I assure Samuel that I will protectchiso in America he nods then Edith s are you Christian no I am NOT I sayEdith is disappointed I told you he is not Christian chiso says he is Jewish

a difference in the world, and we focus on stories of responding to genocide, protecting civil rights, sharing our world, promoting pluralism, finding homes, and standing up to hate.And so if we can have empathy for the stories of Edith or Werner or Roma, hopefully, that challenges us to think about who are the people that we need

beyond individual patients and doctors, and we really need to question what may be underlying them as they change over time.And he was very complimentary towards your research and said how Edith uncovers how under Hitler's regime, the profession of psychiatry became the eyes

They get involved in all kind of protests and demonstrations.And you just had to take one look at Edith to know how unconventional she was.She didn't wear the normal clothes an Edwardian lady-- corsets and pretty dresses and that kind of stuff.

That's fantastic. Paz, what about you?I guess I would be embarrassed to my interpretation of Edith Piaf, pretending that I know what I'm singing.Just making noise that sounds good along to the music.

Leo Sayer, before we go on, Joe, tonight.I love it. Edith Piaf.

And now all they want to do is cast people that are already bankable box office hits.And I do like a lot of these writers like Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dominick Dunne and people that were writing about these circles

And so I was very excited about this.And then also Guillermo had talked to me about Lucille and Edith being kind of two types of love.And there was something about Lucille that I just found so heartbreaking and devastating.

Iíll leave other juicy anecdotes to Edith but be prepared to be surprised about what happened at the beginnings of the iron curtain.Without further ado Iíll turn it over to Edith and weíll have some Q&A afterward.Edith Sheffer: Thank you, Scott.

So increasingly, West Germans began resenting these Eastern crossers who were poorer, they were dressed worse and they were taking their jobs.This sounds familiar. Edith Sheffer: And, in fact, the dynamic of this early border was not dissimilar to the US, Mexican border today.Where there is local impetus to increase border escalations.