1/18 | Birthday of Danny Kaye
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 18 Birthday of Danny Kaye, Actor, Singer, & Comedian Danny Kaye was born David Daniel Kaminsky on January 18, 1913 in East New York, Brooklyn. His parents had left Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) shortly before his birth. He developed an early love of clowning and comedy, which some credit as the reason for his premature departure from school at 16. He was hired as a tummler at the White Roe Lake Hotel in the Catskills, where he first started using the name Danny Kaye and perfecting his trademark high-paced (often Yiddish-inflected)...
Read More
