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Caesar was the youngest of three sons; his family was Jewish.<ref>[https://forward.com/schmooze/192701/rip-sid-caesar-jewish-comedians-hail-the-chief/ By Anne Cohen, February 12, 2014, Forward]</ref> He was born in [[Yonkers, New York]].<ref name="Paskin">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/interviews/interview-sid-caesar-1.18603|title=Interview: Sid Caesar|last=Paskin|first=Barbra|date=October 7, 2010|website=The Jewish Chronicle|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/with-a-jewish-infused-style-sid-caesar-revolutionized-television-comedy/|title=With a Jewish-infused style, Sid Caesar revolutionized television comedy|date=March 21, 2014|website=The Jewish Standard|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref> His father was Max Ziser (1874–1946) and his mother was Ida (née Raphael) (1887–1975). They likely were from [[Dąbrowa Tarnowska]], Poland.<ref>cite web|url=http://jgsgw.org/SidCaeserArticle.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305130009/http://jgsgw.org/SidCaeserArticle.pdf |date=March 5, 2016 }}</ref> Reports state that the surname "Caesar" was given to Max, as a child, by an immigration official at [[Ellis Island]].<ref>U.S. Census 1920, Yonkers, NY, enumerator's district 205, page 15A, and U.S. Census 1930, Yonkers, NY, enumerator's district 60-3, p. 6A</ref><ref>{{cite book | work=St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture |title=Sid Caesar | first=Susan| last=Murray | editor1 = Tom Pendergast |editor2=Sara Pendergast | publisher= St.James Press | year=2013 | isbn= 978-1558628472}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/70/Sid-Caesar.html |title=Sid Caesar Biography (1922–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=December 26, 2013}}</ref> According to Marian L. Smith, senior historian of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, there is no known case of a name changed at Ellis Island.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilw.com/articles/2005,0808-smith.shtm#bio|title=American Names: Declaring Independence|author=Marian L. Smith|work=Immigration Daily}}</ref>