Lou Charloff, “Herschel the Magnificent Jew”
Lou Charloff was born in Romania and moved to New York (specifically, the Bronx) when he was two years old. He speaks five languages and served as an interpreter for the military government of occupied Germany after World War II. Four years ago, he decided to try his hand at stand-up comedy in Los Angeles, making him, simultaneously, one of the oldest and one of the newest comics in the business.
The reprisal of an older video with the new detail about its origins. Definitely worth it given the season!
For the concept of regionalism to hold broad interpretative power, it should explain how an economic base, social networks, and institutions tied communities to one another, how the iconography of region gave these communities a distinctive self-image, and how that image influenced behavior over time.
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| — | William Toll, “A Regional Context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930,” Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America, pg. 217. |
