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Eli Herschel Wallach was born on December 7, 1915, at 156 Union Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a son of Polish Jewish immigrants Abraham and Bertha (Schorr) Wallach from Przemyśl. He had a brother and two sisters. [3] He and his family were one of a few Jews in an otherwise Italian American neighborhood. [4] [5] His parents owned Bertha's Candy ...
Wallach grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household in Brooklyn, where his father owned a candy store. He attended the University of Texas in Austin, and while there he performed onstage and learned to ride horses, a talent that would come into play in his later gunslinger roles.
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Wallach was born on 7 December 1915 in Brooklyn, NY, to Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland, and was one of the few Jewish kids in his mostly Italian neighborhood. His parents, Bertha (Schorr) and Abraham Wallach, owned a candy store, Bertha's Candy Store.
- December 7, 1915
- June 24, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 · (Reuters) - * Wallach's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland who owned a candy store in an Italian neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn.
As a boy in Brooklyn, the only horses Wallach knew were the ones in his immigrant parents’ stories about marauding Cossacks. But in the movies, he was the one in the saddle.
Jun 25, 2014 · Wallach was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 7, 1915, the son of an immigrant candy store owner. He dabbled in dramatics in high school, while becoming a table-tennis champion. His brother and two...
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Jun 25, 2014 · VITALE: Sitting in his upper West side apartment when he was 95-years-old, Eli Wallach recalled growing up in Brooklyn where his parents owned a candy store.
