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Most assuredly...

I'm not trying to be annoying...it just always works out that way.

Shockingly, yes. Yes he is. You'd never guess with the last name Levy, would you?

Jacob Levy aka Jack the Ripper was also Jewish!

Jacob Levy aka Jack the Ripper was also Jewish!

hugh...

that's a new one for me....

I've heard that he was queen Victoria's grandson....or even son.....but never that one

susan

and a name...to go along with it

He's actually Irish. His original birth name is Eugene Shaughnessy O'Levy, but he changed it for showbusiness.

Jacob Levy aka Jack the Ripper was also Jewish!

so was Einstein, Einstein.

^lol

Anyway, yes, Levy is a hebrew (mideastern) surname. He is jewish.

Levy grew up in a Jewish household and listened as his mother sprinkled conversations with a few Yiddish words. But he doesn't see himself as a Jewish comedian, per se. He credits his interest in comedy to a love of Jack Benny's mastery of the art of being reactive to others, and to spending time at Hamilton's McMaster University with some very smart, funny students like Short, Thomas and Ivan Reitman.

"There have been Jewishisms that creep into each movie [with Christopher Guest], but I don't consciously try to make it Jewish," Levy says. "It's just stuff that comes up as humor in the office. Mitch Cohen was the name of the character [in 'A Mighty Wind'], although there's nothing innately Jewish about him in the story outside of the fact his name was Mitch Cohen and he looks like me, which people might then wonder if he was Jewish.

"You can't hide the fact I'm Jewish. It'd be hard for me to play a priest. I am who I am."


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