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Woody Allen was born and raised in New York City to a Jewish family. His grandparents were Yiddish and German-speaking immigrants. His parents Martin Königsbe and Nettea Cherrie, and his sister, Letty , lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn. His parents were both born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His mother worked as a bookkeeper at her family's business. Allen spoke Yiddish during his early years and attended Hebrew school for eight years, and then went to Public School 99 and to Midwood High School. Nicknamed "Red" because of his red hair, he impressed students with his extraordinary talent at card and magic tricks. Though in his films and his comedy persona he has often depicted himself as physically inept and socially unpopular, in fact Woody Allen was a popular student, and an adept baseball and basketball player.
To raise money he began writing gags for the agent David O. Alber, who sold them to newspaper columnists. According to Allen, his first published joke "was......

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