nazi-occupied poland. dershowitz: my grandfather louie was a lovely man. he was an all-american guy, wore a straw hat, liked the brooklynd liked being an american. gates: louie dershowitz was nine years old when he arrived in this country in 1891 and settled with his family in the williamsburg section of brooklyn. the seeds of the bustling orthodox jewish community were being sewn there, and the dershowitz men would eventually establish the neighborhood's first shtiebel, a small orthodox community synagogue in the basement of their 10th street home. dershowitz: this was a synagogue without a rabbi. this was a family synagogue, and the cantor was my grandfather. the lay leader was my great-grandfather. gates: decades later, this synagogue would play a surprising role in alan's family history. adolf hitler: sieg heil! gates: the nazi menace was growing throughout europe. [whistle blows] jews, desperate to escape, were fleeing in great numbers. in response, the united states resorted to immigration quotas and other onerous visa restrictions to control the flow of jewish refugees. in 1939, the roosevelt administration turne

monument to capitalism in my stomping ground, downtown brooklyn, if there is a basketball team, the brooklyn nazi, they moved over across the bay from new jersey and j z was the one man height guy for this, the one man pr machine bringing attention to moving the nets from new jersey to brooklyn. he also partnered with bruce ratner. bruce ratner was a real-estate developer, he saw where the barkley center sits, this new stadium. he saw opportunity to build luxury apartments. the problem was these luxury apartments were sitting on land owned by other people. it was their property. so how can you get these individuals off the land so i can build my luxury apartment? one way was through the use of eminent domain. you can't use eminent domain to kick people off their property for luxury apartments. what did he do? you could use eminent domain to kick people off their land and have businesses relocate if you have a public good that includes the sporting arena. all the thousands of jobs and deployment is supposed to bring, jasey became a minority shareholder, and the barkley center itself. bruce ratner