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Elvis Presley was Jewish? A grave marker locked away for 4 decades confirms it.

Stored in the Graceland archives since 1977, Gladys Presley’s headstone features a Star of David that holds the family’s Jewish story.

Nudie Cohn, Glittery Jewish Tailor to Elvis and the Grand Ole Opry

Something interesting started happening, fashion-wise, among America’s country music stars of the ‘60s and ‘70s. It seemed anyone who took the stage at the Grand Ole Opry—from Hank Williams to Gram Parsons—was decked out in flamboyant, rhinestone-embellished suits. For that, they had Ukrainian Jewish immigrant Nudie Cohn to thank. Born Nuta Kotlyarenko in Kiev in […]

The Jewish Songwriters Behind Elvis’s Jewish Hit Machine

The Jewish Songwriters Behind the Elvis Presley Hit Machine

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein before them, Leiber and Stoller were a songwriting duo to the stars. Jerome Leiber and Mike Stoller, both born in 1933 to Jewish families in Baltimore and Long Island respectively, met in Los Angeles as teenagers and bonded over a mutual love of blues and R&B. With Stoller’s compositional acumen and […]

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Elvis in Jerusalem

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Elvis Presley was Jewish? A grave marker locked away for 4 decades confirms it.

Nudie Cohn, Glittery Jewish Tailor to Elvis and the Grand Ole Opry

The Jewish Songwriters Behind the Elvis Presley Hit Machine

Elvis in Jerusalem

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