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Brandeis series in american Jewish history, culture, and life Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor | Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor For a complete list of books that are available in the series, visit www.upne.com Mark Cohen Jack Wertheimer, editor Overweight Sensation: The Life and Learning and Community: Comedy of Allan Sherman Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-first Century David E. Kaufman Jewhooing the Sixties: Carole S. Kessner American Celebrity and Jewish Identity— Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, Leonard Saxe and Barry Chazan and Barbra Streisand Ten Days of Birthright Israel: Jack Wertheimer, editor A Journey in Young Adult Identity The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the Jack Wertheimer, editor American Jewish Landscape Imagining the American Eitan P. Fishbane and Jewish Community Jonathan D. Sarna, editors Murray Zimiles Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: Jonathan B. Krasner The Synagogue to the Carousel The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Marianne R. Sanua Education Be of Good Courage: The American Jewish Derek Rubin, editor Committee, 1945–2006 Promised Lands: New Jewish American Hollace Ava Weiner and Fiction on Longing and Belonging Kenneth D. Roseman, editors Susan G. Solomon Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Jack Wertheimer, editor Israel and the Midcentury American Jewish Education in an Age of Choice Synagogue Edward S. Shapiro Amy Neustein, editor Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot and Child Sex Scandals n e h o C k r a M The Life and Comedy of Brandeis University Press / Waltha m, Massachusetts Brandeis University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com © 2013 Mark Cohen All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Mark. Overweight sensation : the life and comedy of Allan Sherman / Mark Cohen. p. cm. —  (Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–61168–256–4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–1–61168–427–8 (ebook) 1.  Sherman, Allan, 1924–1973. 2.  Singers—United States— Biography. 3. Jewish comedians—United States—Biography. 4.  Humorous songs—United States—20th century— History and criticism.  I. Title. ML420.S5373C65 2013 782'.42164092—dc23 [B] 2012038565 5 4 3 2 1 n i e l l e f o r d a Prologue / Overweight Sensation / xi Introduction / Humpty Dumpty / 1 one / Witz-Krieg! / 8 two / College in Sex Acts (Printer’s Error) / 33 three / I’ve Got a Secret / 58 four / There Is Nothing Like a Lox / 83 five / Ollavood! / 103 six / My Son, the Folk Singer / 121

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In Overweight Sensation, Mark Cohen argues persuasively for Sherman's legacy as a touchstone of postwar humor and a turning point in Jewish American cultural history. With exclusive access to Allan Sherman's estate, Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creativ
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