Fyvush Finkel And Rudy Giuliani Editorial Image

Fyvush Finkel shares the spotlight with then New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani at the Lower East Side Festival on June 16, 1996, in Manhattan. Finkel was an American stage, film, and Emmy Award-winning television actor. Brooklyn-born, he starred on the Yiddish theater stage where he performed for 35 years. He was also a stand-up comic in the Catskills on the so-called Borscht Belt circuit. He is perhaps best known for his tv role of eccentric defense lawyer Douglas Wambaugh a role for which he won his Emmy in 1994 in the critically acclaimed drama “Picket Fences.” He also gained popularity for his role as the curmudgeonly history teacher Harvey Lipschultz in the drama “Boston Public.” He appeared in the original Broadway production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in 1964. Brooklyn-born, Finkel died at 93 on August 14, 2016.