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I was just reading a book by Paul Auster in which he mentions Rocco as having been his barber as kid. I met maybe 20 years ago a woman who said her brother used to go to Edison’s barber which had to have been the same guy. Auster goes on to say that his father had briefly been employed by Edison until terminated when Edison discovered he was a Jew — this is somewhat consistent with the known antisemitism of Edison and his pal Ford although Ford did employ Jews in blue collar jobs; I also read that Edison had advised Ford to tone down his antisemitism.