Yo're doing Matthau dirty.  On the other hand, he was a kike, so go right ahead. Kikepedia: >Matthau was born Walter John Matthow on October 1, 1920, in New York City's Lower East Side. He had two brothers, one older and one younger. > Matthau's parents were Jewish; his mother, Rose (née Berolsky or Beransky), was a Lithuanian immigrant who worked in a garment factory, and his father, Milton Matuschanskayasky (later Matthow), was a Ukrainian peddler and electrician from Kiev (now Kyiv, Ukraine). They got married in New York in 1917.