David Copperfield — illusionist with roots in the USSR Roots
David Copperfield is the most commercially successful magician in history. Guinness World Records has named him the most watched entertainer alive. He has made the Statue of Liberty disappear, walked through the Great Wall of China, and flew solo on stage — redefining what magic could be as spectacle.
Tracing the roots — Jerusalem (Rus parents)
His mother Rebecca Kotkin came from a family with Russian Jewish roots. Copperfield grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey, in a Jewish household. The tradition of Jewish performance, reinvention, and illusion — literally the art of making people believe in something that isn't there — runs through his extraordinary career.
Jerusalem (Rus parents). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.
A career defined by ambition
"Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you — and he does."