About Jake

JAKE EHRENREICH is a musician, author and playwright. He is currently featured in the film The Last Laugh alongside Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, and has appeared on Broadway in Dancin', Barnum, They're Playing Our Song and toured internationally as Ringo in Beatlemania.

A Brooklyn born child of Holocaust survivors, Jake is best known as star and creator of his record breaking musical - 
A Jew Grows in Brooklyn, which is now a bestselling book. Jake’s writings also appear in Summer Haven, The Catskills, The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination alongside Nobel Prize Winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Jake’s newest CD is A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs with Oscar nominee / Grammy winning pianist Roger Kellaway.

NYC declared A Jew Grows in Brooklyn Day in 2012, and Jake received Special Congressional Citation and induction into the Brooklyn Jewish Hall of Fame and in 2016.