A Spanish matodor was fatally gored this week in Spain, the first time this has happened since 1985. Though not widely known, there was a gay Jewish man who was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1903 who went on to become a matador. He fought in the ring in Mexico and around the world and befriended Ernest Hemingway, who said of him, “he is one of the most skillful, graceful and slow manipulators of a cape fighting today.” His birth name was Sidney Frumpkin, though he later changed it to Sidney Franklin. But what name was he called when he first entered the bullring in Spain in 1929?
Bullfight, Spain by Christian Dalera is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
A. El Judio.
B. La Shechitah de los Toros.
C. El Yanqui.
D. El Matador de los Israelitos.
E. El Matador Va-Dor.