Word: davises
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Isolated examples of discrimination do crop up. A year ago when a hotel manager near Papakura refused to serve a beer to a Maori, he was not only soundly criticized in the nation's press but got a stiff reprimand from the hotel-chain owner, Sir Ernest Davis. Last...
Song-and-Dance-Man Sammy Davis Jr. was teeing off on the golf course one day when his opponent asked him what his handicap was. "Handicap?" wisecracked Davis. "Talk about handicap-I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew."
Talented Performer Davis, son of a Negro vaudeville headliner of the '20s, is one-eyed as the result of an auto accident in 1954. And in the February issue of the Negro picture magazine Ebony, he tells how he became a Jew.
Raised as a Roman Catholic, Davis first became seriously interested in Judaism while he was convalescing from his accident, and was much impressed by the Jewish chaplain at San Bernardino's Community Hospital. Several years later, at a charity party for children in San Francisco, he found himself kidding...
But Davis studied the Talmud and came back a year later. He sums it up: "I wanted to become part of a 5,000-year history and hold onto something not just material, which would give me that inner strength to turn the other cheek. Jews have become strong over...