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The Yiddish World

What’s In A Name?

One way that Jewish actors and actresses sought to become more accepted by Hollywood and the general public was to change their ethnic-sounding name.
See if you can match up their Jewish name with the name that we know them by:
 

1. Woody Allen

2. June Allyson

3. Lauren Bacall

4. Jack Benny

5. Milton Berle

6. Irving Berlin

7. Joey Bishop

8. Karen Black

9. Victor Borge

10. Fanny Brice

11. Mel Brooks

12. George Burns

13. Eddie Cantor

14. Jeff Chandler

15. Lee J. Cobb

16. Tony Curtis

17. Rodney Dangerfield

18. Kirk Douglas

19. Melvyn Douglas

20. Bob Dylan

21. Paulette Goddard

22. Elliot Gould

23. Judy Holliday

24. Al Jolson

25. Danny Kaye

26. Michael Landon

27. Steve Lawrence

28. Jerry Lewis

29. Peter Lorre

30. Elaine May

31. Ethel Merman

32. Ives Montand

33. Mike Nichols

34. Stephanie Powers

35. Joan Rivers

36. Edward G. Robinson

37. Artie Shaw

38. Simone Signoret

39. Beverly Sills

40. Sophie Tucker

41. Gene Wilder

42. Natalie Wood

a. Asa Yoelson

b. Abraham Isaac Archawsky

c. Milton Berlinger

d. Sidney Leibowitz

e. Fanny Borach

f. Ella Geisman

g. Bernard Schwartz

h. Karen Blanche Ziegler

i. Bobby Zimmerman

j. Marion Levy

k. Ethel Zimmerman

l. Simone-Henriette Kaminker

m. Elliot Goldstein

n. Ivo Levi

o. Israel Baline

p. Melvyn Hesselberg

q. Stephanie Federkrewcz

r. Ira Grossel

s. Belle Silverman

t. Judith Tuvim

u. Betty Joan Perske

v. Emanual Goldenberg

w. Nathan Birnbaum

x. Lazlo Lowenstein

y. David Caniel Kaminsky

z. Amos Jacob

aa. Edward Israel Iskowitz

bb. Borge Rosenbaum

cc. Benjamin Kubelsky

dd. Joan Molinsky

ee. Michael Orowitz

ff. Jacob Cohen

gg. Allen Stewart Konigberg

hh. Gerald Silberman

ii. Issue Danielovitch Demsky

jj. Michael Peschkowsky

kk. Sophia Kalish

ll. Elaine Berlin

mm. Joseph Gottlieb

nn. Melvin Kaminsky

oo. Natasha Gurdin

pp. Seymour Joseph Levitch


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