Irving Jacobson

Irving Jacobson (June 18, 1898 – December 17, 1978) was a Yiddish theater star, American stage and film actor. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to actors Joseph and Bessie Jacobson, his brother was Hymie Jacobson and his sister Henrietta Jacobson, who married Julius Adler. Irving played juvenile roles in Pinkhas Thomashefsky's troupe and later appeared in films by Sidney Goldin. He performed two years with Goldenburg at Philadelphia's Garden Theater and toured Paris and Rumania with May Shoenfeld in 1929. He and his brother Hy Jacobson co-wrote the novelty number A Bisl Fefer, A Bisl Zalts (A little pepper, a little salt), recorded by Pesach Burstein. As the comic character Schnitz'l Putz'l (Schept…