Early Life
Al Jaffee was born March 13, 1921 in Savannah, Georgia, spending six years of his childhood in Lithuania before returning to America in advance of the Nazi takeover. He studied at the High School of Music & Art in New York City in the late 1930s, along with his brother Harry and future Mad personnel Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, John Severin and Al Feldstein.
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