SubscribeStuds Terkel’s Jewish roots
Show of hands: how many of you out there knew that Terkel was Jewish? I’m embarrassed to admit I am one of you. So thanks to reader ASC for this link to a 2006 interview Terkel gave to the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.
JJ: Tell us about your Jewish background.
ST: My mother came from Bialystock, near [...]
Lest we forget: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel died on October 31 at the age of 96.
He never wrote a baseball book (as far as I’m aware), but Stud Terkel was always a favorite of mine, long before he appeared as sportswriter Huey Fullerton in John Sayle’s Eight Men Out. His acting style might not have been Oscar material, but he [...]
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