at Sheffield University, where he is, he always kind of ignored the antisemitism because he didn't feel able to claim Jewishness as an identity, that
Jill Sheffield of Women Deliver writes in the introduction to "Faces of Courage," "Marcus combined sadness with hope, problem with solution,
but Sheffield, Nottingham, and really just do more of that, actually.
Edith Sheffer: Thank you, Scott.
Edith Sheffer: So, compared to international relations today, the Cold War, in retrospect, can appear to be a simpler, steadier time.
Edith Sheffer: And then here you have workers crossing illegally.
Edith Sheffer: So the memory of the border is as important to understanding it today as what actually happened.
Edith Sheffer: So you have four mass crossings and then four returns to normalcy which I think makes the sensation of these mass crossings
Edith Sheffer: Now this argument is very easy to make for the immediate post war period when border policy and the two German states
Edith Sheffer: They were stealing mines from the border fortifications and selling them to West German and American service men on the other side.
Edith Sheffer: Even in the 70s and 80s the border was plagued by malfunctions, defunct trip wires, signal fences, heavy snowfall
Edith Sheffer: Crossing on a dare or something like that.
Edith Sheffer: Yeah, absolutely.
Edith Sheffer: Yeah and exactly as you say itís amazing to me two different cultures formed out of one formerly similar region.
Edith Sheffer: wow. Edith Sheffer: Yeah, youíve just made a lot of really interesting linkages between different phenomenonís.
Edith Sheffer: Yeah. No, thatís a great question, too.
Edith Sheffer: On the cause of people living on the other side.
Psychologists at Sheffield Hallam University investigated how well students learn something.
So Yossi Sheffi, who does supply chain logistics at MIT, has a nice saying.
There is no real Sheffield Muscle-Building company, or whatever it was.
My name is Scott Sheffer and itís my pleasure to introduce Professor Edith Sheffer to all of you.
I actually live back up in Sheffield now, but it's been taken on by the tribe.
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.
The only one the really touched on that was David Sheff book "Game Over," which talked about the rise of Nintendo in the 1980s.
She's currently a lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University.
And Mr. Sheffield was sitting there, and I was standing behind him.
Like, Sheffield Muscle-Building Company?
This sounds familiar. Edith Sheffer: And, in fact, the dynamic of this early border was not dissimilar to the US, Mexican border today.
Hi. I'm here today with Rob Sheffield.
I happened to have seen three of these walls in 1973 Edith Sheffer: Great.
He's a Senior Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, and, of course, the author of this book, "The Atomic Human,"
I got a lot of guys that are going to participate-- Malcolm Jenkins, Gary Sheffield, Baron Davis.
I mean, during the Falklands War, the HMS Sheffield was hit by an Exocet.
And you say, um, Sheffield.
In fact, one of the people that I used to work with who now works in Sheffield has just gone to Australia to do some talks and he tweeted me to say,
quote, ìCame over the border again to visit us today.î Edith Sheffer: And although this kind of evidence is anecdotal there are such fragments in peopleís attics and conversations that
Marissa Mayer: So in terms of other special moments, solongadelaide from Sheffield, England, asks, when exactly was the moment in your career when you realized you were
But I think one of the earlier episodes, the first time that Mr. Sheffield and I connected
First it turns out the game was not actually over the border but no one knew where the border lay, Edith Sheffer: So it was entirely within the Soviet Zone because it was the Communist
So I went back training with rugby, joined the local team. And we moved up to, I live in Bradford now, North Nottinghamshire, so I work just over in Sheffield which is right
we've got. A colleague of mine, Susan Sheridan at University of Sheffield, has talked about this being a globalized Mediterranean. Now, why do we care about that? Because there aren't that many