“Nobody created myths like him,” Joe Posnanski, the author of the enchanting new book, “The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini,” told the Forward. But many of the marvels of Houdini’s life, due in part to his own self-mythologizing, are so much hocus pocus. Harry Houdini was the immortal alter ego of the late Hungarian-Jewish immigrant Ehrich Weiss, the son of a rabbi and an incomparable mama’s boy. In honor of the occasion, we are reprinting this piece from November 2019, a catalogue of the famed magician’s most incredible true (or so we think) tales. It’s one more bit of dissembling from a man notorious for invented biography. At least we think so - he always said he was born April 6, possibly out of ignorance of the true date.
Writer’s Note: Today would have been Harry Houdini’s 147th birthday.
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