A Skirball Academy Class Dr. David E. Kaufman New York Jews and the Making of American Pop Culture Who can imagine American theater, music, comedy or television without New York Jewish luminaries like Fanny Brice and Eddie Cantor, Samuel Goldwyn, Stephen Sondheim, Woody Allen, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, George Gershwin, Jerry Lewis, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, […]

A Skirball Academy Class Dr. David E. Kaufman New York Jews and the Making of American Pop Culture Who can imagine American theater, music, comedy or television without New York Jewish luminaries like Fanny Brice and Eddie Cantor, Samuel Goldwyn, Stephen Sondheim, Woody Allen, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, George Gershwin, Jerry Lewis, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Paul Simon, Billy Joel,