Tom Lehrer never identified closely with his ancestral Judaism. But the famed satirist and mathematician, who died on July 26 at 97, wrote one of the first popular songs about a Jewish holiday. “(I’m ...
Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based scholar and songwriter with a knack for political satire, died Saturday, July 26 at 97. But his zany songs live on. Lehrer got his comedic start at Harvard University, ...