The West Wing
1999
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Shimerman was born into a Jewish family [ 1][ 2] in Lakewood, New Jersey, on November 5, 1949, the son of accountant Susan and house painter Herbert Shimerman. [ 3] When he was 15, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where his mother enrolled him in a drama group in an effort to expand his social circle.
The parallels don't end here, as the Ferengi religion could be described as a parody of traditional Judaism. In the Star Trek universe, the Ferengi follow what they call the 285 Rule of...
The premiere of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1993 placed a Ferengi among the main ensemble cast: station bartender Quark, played by Armin Shimerman. Quark was a black marketeer, an occasional gunrunner, a cheat, a liar and as greedy as a squirrel. But he grew on you.
But despite Jewish writers (David Gerrold, Harlan Ellison to name a few) and numerous Jewish stars (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, Brent Spiner, Armin Shimerman) Jewish...
Both Quark and Nog were played by Jewish actors, Armin Shimerman and the late Aron Eisenberg. So it’s possible that that the Karemma picked up the Yiddishism from Quark, their long-time...
Second — more worryingly because of the similarity to enduring antisemitic stereotypes — Jewish actors Armin Shimerman, Aron Eisenberg and Max Grodénchik played the greedy über-capitalist...
Shimerman grew up in Lakewood the descendant of immigrants: his father was born in Poland and came to New Jersey from Palestine, while his mother was born in Cleveland to Russian Jewish...
