|The Man|Jolson Journey
Ah, ha! Way back in the "old country," Al's father, Moshe, was born Moshe Hesselson. Because of the way Jewish boys were conscripted into the Czar's army, in the Russia of the nineteenth century, sons were often given up to new families, sometimes fictious ones, so that they could assume the eldest son status, immune from the twenty or more years of military service, from which so few returned. Give yourself a pat on the back, and go on to the next question.
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