He was born in 1889 in Bucharest, to a 15 and a half year old mother who had married a traveling salesman father. He's basically a lower middle class Jewish immigrant living in Vienna; he ends up getting a pretty serious education. His therapeutic theater stuff is really an attempt to figure out how does that spark come from? That preoccupation of his is where social network analysis comes from.
Malcolm talks with Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, host of The Last Archive, about the forgotten origins of a major social science, the missing chapter in Ella Fitzgerald’s life, and what it all has to do with the prison just down the street from Malcolm’s office. Listen, and check out the brand new season from Pushkin’s The Last Archive.
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