![]() ![]() But the actor who starred as Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce on the long-running television series M*A*S*H was raised Catholic. ![]() No wonder people mistake him for one of the tribe. His name sounds Jewy, he played a brilliant surgeon, he’s an ardent feminist and liberal, and he’s married to a Jew. ![]() But he was proud of his heritage in another persecuted group: the Roma, or Gypsies. Despite his famous role as a Jewish barber, Chaplin wasn’t Jewish. Plus Chaplin’s 1940 film, The Great Dictator, indicted fascism and underscored Jewish suffering at a time when the United States was still neutral in World War II. The Nazis included this international superstar of the silent film era in their 1930s propaganda compendium, Juden Sehen Dich An (The Jews Are Watching You). Adding to confusion is Springsteen’s famous nickname, “The Boss,” which he earned in 1960s New Jersey because he was often in charge of distributing payment from gigs to his bandmates. Bruce Springsteen / Charlie Chaplin / Alan Alda / Milton Hershey / Ringo Starr / Rupert Murdoch / Ethel Merman / Mike Myers / “Weird Al” Yankovic / Joy BeharĬan you hear us, the many rock fans who assume that he’s Jewish? That’s Spring steen-“stepping stone” in old Dutch-not Spring stein. ![]()
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