According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Archive,  Charlie Chapman was Jewish which would explain in part why Sir Philip Sassoon (Rothschild) became a friend.   "Charlie Chaplin’s parents on both sides were Jewish it would seem, according to an interview he has given here to the “Neue Freie Presse”, in which he describes his mother as a ghetto beauty, and his father as a fine jargon comedian, “Jargon” apparently meaning Jewish dialect. I have experienced the sufferings of a people tr