When Oren Lefkowitz first started writing music as a solo artist in 2019, he wanted to pay homage to the Jewish artists before him who had felt pressure to change their names to better fit into mainstream society. As a thought experiment, he considered what name he might have used as an actor in 1940s Hollywood—a la Issur Danielovitch going by Kirk Douglas. Lefkowitz ultimately settled on the name Oscar Lewis. And then he searched to see if any other artists had already laid claim to it. “What came up was this anthropologist named Oscar Lewis who died in 1970,...
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