Yes, Tom Lehrer is Jewish. A friend of mine was his TA at MIT.
Trudi the G
>From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: RE: Dylan or Donovan?
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:38:42 -0500
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>Well it took him six years just to go and have it fixed. It's fixed for a
>year now. But Seth, we have this vast Yiddish/Jewish/Opera record
>collection. Our son grew up on our Tom Lehrer record every night since age
>3. (I guess that explains why he is the editor-in-chief of his college
>humor paper.) Our almost 15 year-old daughter knows all the Tom Lehrer
>songs only from her brother and never heard the real thing herself. I
>think this is severe childhood deprivation. And then there all the other
>wonderful Yiddish and American folk records of every sort. OY
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>BTW, is Tom Lehrer Jewish?
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>Reyzl
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>From: Seth Rogovoy [SMTP:rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net]
>Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 1:00 PM
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: RE: Dylan or Donovan?
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> > Can you please ask my husband to re-connect the record player to the
> > stereo? Ten years ago is about the last time we could listen to LP's in
> > this house.
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>sure, and when he's done reconnecting yours he can come over and reconnect
>mine! (disconnected for about a year, but not used in about 10....)
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>;-)
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