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Kaminsky was simply too ethnic for the time. he was born in 1926, he grew up in a time of anti-semitism. He would encounter less resistance as Mel Brooks than he would as Melvin Kaminsky.
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∙ 14y agoAfter completing his military service, Brooks became a standup comedian in the Catskills, where he changed his name so he would not be confused with the musician Max Kaminsky.
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