‘YIDDISHE CHARLESTON’ or: ‘YEAH I’M JEWISH. YOU WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?’
The 1920s saw a rise in Jewish humor throughout the country, featuring comic strips like Milt Gross’s ‘Nize Baby’ and dialect comedians like Willie Howard and the team of ‘Smith And Dale’ (who were the models for Neil Simon’s vaudeville team in ‘The Sunshine Boys’). The superstar 1920s female Jewish
January 12, 2023
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