One was the New York born son of Jewish immigrants, one a child of western Missouri. They served together in France during World War I. Home from battle they opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. It failed. The immigrants’ son stayed in the clothing business, the man from Missouri went into politics.

Eddie, a one man play performed by Marvin Starkman (who with his partner Bob Feinberg wrote the script), tells the story of Eddie Jacobson and Harry S. Truman and how, 60 years ago, Jacobson put at risk a lifetime’s friendship to lobby the President of the United States to support the as yet unborn state of Israel.

Directed by Max Daniels, Eddie will be performed in the Rotunda on Sunday, June 1 at 6:30pm. Tickets are $10.

This program is sponsored in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)