Self-Education and Self-Invention: The American Story of a Skid Row Philo-Zionist

The subject of the podcast went through a self-education process while on a mining expedition and later on Skid Row, where he claims to have taught himself Hebrew and botany./nDespite rumors of him being secretly Jewish due to his understanding of Hebrew and strong support for Zionism, there is no direct evidence of his Jewish identity./nThe subject's self-invention and ability to transform himself is a quintessentially American trait./nThe speaker acknowledges that everyone has the right to self-invention and to be who they want to be.