Editing Milton Berle (section)

==Early life==
Milton Berle was born into a [[Jews|Jewish]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Gary Baum|title=L.A.'s Power Golf Clubs: Where the Hollywood Elite Play|date=June 23, 2011|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/las-power-golf-clubs-hollywood-205072|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> family in a five-story walkup in the [[Harlem]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]]. His given name was Mendel Berlinger,<ref>{{cite news|title=Milton Berle (obituary)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/29/guardianobituaries|access-date=June 24, 2014|work=The Guardian|date=March 29, 2002}}</ref><ref name="jewish virtual library">{{cite web|last1=Museum of Broadcast Communications|title=Milton Berle (1908 – 2002)|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Berle.html|website=Jewish Virtual Library|publisher=American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise|access-date=November 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="jns org">{{cite web|last1=Gluck|first1=Robert|title=How Jewish television pioneer Milton Berle inspired modern comedy stars|url=http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/8/28/how-jewish-television-pioneer-milton-berle-inspired-modern-comedy-stars#.VHDHnIvF98E|website=JNS.org|publisher=Jewish and Israel news|access-date=November 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129060327/http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/8/28/how-jewish-television-pioneer-milton-berle-inspired-modern-comedy-stars#.VHDHnIvF98E|archive-date=November 29, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> but he chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger (1872–1938), was of German-Jewish descent<ref>{{Cite book |last=Epstein |first=Lawrence J. |title=The Haunted Smile: The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America |date=August 5, 2008 |isbn=978-0786724925 |pages= |quote=Milton Berle's father and the rest of the Berlinger family came from Wamp, Germany and were well-off. [...] The Berlingers were deeply proud of their German Jewish heritage.}}</ref> and worked as a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger (1877–1954),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2CQeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NpgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5278,3741070&dq=milton+berle+son&hl=en|title=Milton Berle's Mother Dies|date=June 1, 1954|newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News|access-date=January 23, 2011}}</ref> who was of Polish-Jewish ancestry,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=David B. |date=September 21, 2014 |title=1948: Milton Berle debuts in game-changing TV show |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2014-09-21/ty-article/.premium/1948-berle-debuts-on-tv/0000017f-db0b-d856-a37f-ffcbe1da0000 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230522035957/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2014-09-21/ty-article/.premium/1948-berle-debuts-on-tv/0000017f-db0b-d856-a37f-ffcbe1da0000 |archive-date=2023-05-22 |access-date= |work=[[Haaretz]] |language=en}}</ref> changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous. He had three older brothers (from oldest to youngest): Phil, Frank, and Jack Berle. For many years, the latter two worked on Berle's TV production staff while Phil was a programming executive at NBC.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju5CCTAJMq8| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211111/Ju5CCTAJMq8| archive-date=2021-11-11 | url-status=live|title=Milton Berle Interview (1956)|date=1956|publisher=YouTube|access-date=August 10, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>