Emil Cohen (comedian)

After serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, Cohen became a comedian at the Grossinger Pancoast Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

Cohen developed a unique style of humor in which he delivered jokes and stories with a punch line in Yiddish followed immediately by an English translation.

His smooth delivery ensured that audience members who only understood English could still appreciate the joke in its authentic style.

Cohen was known for his double-entendre Yiddish-English humor, particularly his translation of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into Yiddish.

During his career, Cohen raised tens of millions of dollars for the United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bonds.