Sammy Davis, Jr., the Negro American entertainer who is a convert to Judaism, arrived here Saturday for a one-day trip. He told hundreds of fans at Lydda Airport, as tears poured down his cheeks ...

Sammy Davis Jr. at the Western Wall in 1969, and on the phone, circa 1955. ... A Jewish art teacher sculpts her perfect man and – mystically, Golem-like – he comes to life.

Sammy Davis Jr. was a short and skinny Black man with one eye. His wife was white, his mother was Puerto Rican and he was a convert to Judaism. In the crass and racist world of mid-20th century ...