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Bruce, Lenny (1925–1966)

Lenny Bruce—born Leonard Alfred Schneider, in Mineola, Long Island (New York), the son of an Anglo-Jewish shoe clerk and a dancer, who divorced when he was 5 years old—was a U.S. nightclub entertainer and social satirist during the 1950s and early ...

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