I Celebrate The Release Of Masters Of The Air By Pointing Out How Fitting It Is To Have An Elvis Portrayer Play An American Soldier, Considering that Elvis Was Part Jewish And Even Once A “Shabbos Goy”

To celebrate the release of Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks’ third World War II miniseries Masters of the Air, I shall point out how Masters of the Air star Austin Butler previously played someone of partial Jewish dissent. That, of course, being Elvis Presley. It’s also good for Hanks and Butler to reunite, with Hanks serving as a producer of the miniseries that features Butler portray 100th Bomb Group of the U.S. Eight Air Force icon Gale “Buck” Winston Cleven. Considering the fact that Presley’s material great-great Lithuanian Jewish grandmother Nancy Burdine’s family migrated to the United States around the time of the American Revolution, it is indeed only fitting that Butler is now in a show about American soldiers involved in the war against the Holocaust agitators and instigators of Nazi Germany. In addition, Elvis at one point was the “shabbos goy” to the first principal of the Memphis Hebrew Academy Rabbi Alfred Frutchter, a helper task usually assigned for non-Jews who work for Jews who opt to rest on the Sabbath Day, and which Frutcher’s son Harold even acknowledged his family never would’ve assigned to Elvis had they known he was part Jewish. He was even a shabbos goy to another Sabbath observing Memphis Jewish family with the last name Dubrovner. Oy, the fun of learning

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• https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/uh-huh-elvis-was-a-nice-jewish-boy-k86205o5
• https://www.academia.edu/224902/Tugging_at_Jewish_Weeds_An_Interview_with_Steve_Stern