GERSHWIN, GEORGE AND IRA. Perhaps the greatest popular songwriters of the Golden Age
of Broadway theater; George Gershwin, b. Jacob Gershvin, Brooklyn, New York, ; d. Hollywood, California, ; Ira Gershwin, b. Israel Gershvin, New York, New York, ; d. Hollywood, California, .
George Gershwin was born into a poor family of first-generation immigrants. In 1912 his parents purchased a piano so that his older brother, Ira, could take...