Al Jolson - Biographies

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Here are an assortment of biographical sketches and works revealing the life and times of The World's Greatest Entertainer.

The British site of Jolson: The Musical originated this nice biography of Al Jolson. It includes a biographical sketch, along with a look at the man and his music. There is even a section dealing with the blackface controversy. Interesting reading for all!

Derek Crabtree has put together a wonderful biographical piece on Al Jolson on his site, the Sherwood Times. If you are looking for a well rounded source of information on The World's Greatest Entertainer, I think you will find what you are looking for right here!

Another comprehensive biography of Al Jolson was written by James M. Manheim and was first published on the old Music Boulevard site.

David Hamer, on his British Jolson site, first published this interesting look at the Jolson story Before the Jazz Singer, 1899-1927.

In the Monday, February 22, 1999, issue of the New York Daily News, the Big Town Biography started out with the Hot Cats, and the biography of AL JOLSON as the lead article. Enjoy this tribute to the man who started it all!

Thanks to columnist Nick Clooney for his comments on Al Jolson, published in the Cincinatti Post on September 10, 1997. He answers a letter from a young reader who wants to know just who this "Greatest" person was. Check it out!

In the September/October, 1998, issue of Tikkun Magazine, Stephen Mo Hanan, who has appeared as Al Jolson in the one man play Jolson, wrote this compelling piece called Al Jolson: The Soul Beneath The Mask.

At just thirty-five years old, Al Jolson became the youngest man in American history to have a theatre named in his honor. Here is the story of that theatre, no longer evident on the streets of New York: Jolson's Fifty-Ninth Street Theatre.

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