Irving Brecher

Co-Author of 'The Wicked Wit of the West,' Hank Rosenfeld has written for Spy Magazine, Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, the New York Post, Jewish Forward, and Premiere, among others. He has produced comedy shows for KSAN in San Francisco and K-ROCK (WXRK) in New York. He wrote jokes for the long-running Broadway show 'Catskills on Broadway' at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and lived as a deejay on the pirate-radio ship, The Voice of Peace, broadcasting 'from somewhere in the Mediterranean.' Rosenfelds current credits include NPR, Marketplace, Weekend America and Off-Ramp, among others. He ia a folk journalist.

Photo: Hank interviewing Irving Brecher, who died in Nov. 2008 at age 94."