{"id":75829,"date":"2023-07-24T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=75829"},"modified":"2023-08-26T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:21:04","slug":"tony-bennett-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/tony-bennett-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bennett, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Singer Tony Bennett passed away just two weeks shy of his 97th birthday. In 2014, Bennett performed in Tel Aviv\u2019s Mann Auditorium, one night after a surprise guest appearance at a Lady Gaga performance in Hayarkon Park. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75830\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75830\" class=\"wp-image-75830 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett.png 662w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/150;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75830\" class=\"wp-image-75830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Tony_Bennett.png 662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-75830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bennett in 2003 by Tom Beetz is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>As a United States soldier in World War II, Bennett was among the troops who liberated the Dachau concentration camp. In his autobiography, Bennett wrote, \u201cI\u2019ll never forget the desperate faces and empty stares of the prisoners as they wandered aimlessly around the campgrounds.\u201d He later wrote that this experience \u201cturned me into a lifelong pacifist and it\u2019s my hope that all wars and violence will become a thing of the past.\u201d He remained politically active throughout his life, including walking alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1965 Montgomery to Selma protest march. What is a Jewish connection in Tony Bennett\u2019s life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f7\">A.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f8\">Sammy Davis, Jr. and Tony Bennett not only performed together on many occasions, but were also very close friends. When Davis\u2019s son Sammy Davis III was born, Tony Bennett served as the godfather and held the child during the bris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f9\">B.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f8\">Bennett participated in Henry Louis Gates\u2019s television program&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">Finding Your Roots<\/span><span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;and learned that some of his ancestors were Sicilian Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Inquisition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f10\">C.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f8\">Tony Bennett participated in the first Chabad&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">To Life!<\/span><span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;telethon in 1980, which was hosted by actor Carroll O\u2019Connor and comedian Jan Murray. He sang&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">I Left My Heart in San Francisco<\/span><span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">Hava Nagilah<\/span><span class=\"f8\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f11\">D.<span class=\"f12\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f8\">Tony Bennett has a Jewish granddaughter named Maya because his daughter Antonia married an Israeli man and converted to Judaism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3 f13\">E.<span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f8\">Cy Coleman (whose real name was Seymour Kaufman) wrote the lyrics for a number of songs popularized by Tony Bennett, including&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">The Best is Yet to Come<\/span><span class=\"f8\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">I\u2019ve Got Your Number<\/span><span class=\"f8\">. Coleman also wrote Bennett\u2019s most popular song,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">I Left My Heart in San Francisco<\/span><span class=\"f8\">. However, the song was originally written with a different title and lyrics reflecting Coleman\u2019s Eastern European Jewish heritage and his parents\u2019 journey from Slovakia to America. When Tony Bennett heard the song,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"f14\">I Left My Heart in Bratislava<\/span><span class=\"f8\">, he immediately begged Coleman to rewrite the lyrics to appeal to a broader American audience, and the rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rrrjewishtrivia.com\/answers-2023\/tony-bennett-rip-answer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWER<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tony%20Bennett%2C%20RIP\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5841],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75831,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75829\/revisions\/75831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}