migrants and Jewish working class
intellectuals. (Maher & Groves 121) Noam has also said that the best
moments of his life in those years was being able to work at the
newsstand and listen to all the conversations going on around him.
As an adolescent, Chomsky espied the development of Fascism in
Europe and the anti-Semetic succor of some people in the streets at
home. In spite of the fact that he was anti-Nazi, Noam has said that he
was dismayed over the treatment the German prisoners of war received in
the camp next to his high school. This, coupled with other perceptions
have provoked him into a skeptical stance over the general patriotic
Noam continued his schooling at the University of Pennsylvania
where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. In 1955, he
received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, though most of
the studies that generated a majority of the paper which lead to the
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