Sid Caesar — comedian with roots in the Russian Empire
Sid Caesar. Star of Your Show of Shows, born in Yonkers to Jewish immigrant parents. Born Isaac Sidney Caesar in Yonkers in 1922 to the Jewish immigrants Max Ziser and Ida Raffel, who ran a 24-hour luncheonette. Wikipedia says they were probably from Dąbrowa Tarnowska, then in Austrian Galicia, which was never Russian territory; one account says Ida came from Russia, with no town named.
Tracing the roots — Probably Dąbrowa Tarnowska, western Galicia (Austria-Hungary); mother 'from Russia' in one source only - disputed
Born Isaac Sidney Caesar in Yonkers in 1922 to the Jewish immigrants Max Ziser and Ida Raffel, who ran a 24-hour luncheonette. Wikipedia says they were probably from Dąbrowa Tarnowska, then in Austrian Galicia, which was never Russian territory; one account says Ida came from Russia, with no town named.
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Probably Dąbrowa Tarnowska, western Galicia (Austria-Hungary); mother 'from Russia' in one source only - disputed. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."