Harry Houdini, was born 150 years ago last Sunday, March 24, as Erik Weisz into a Jewish family in Budapest, then in the ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

Library of Congress Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable ... After moving around the Bay Area the family settled in Oakland, where Jack finished grade school.