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Purim Parade Surprise: Popeye the Sailor Man’s Unexpected Jewish Connection!

Summary by St. Louis Jewish Light
The most obscure bit of trivia the Jewish Light learned at the 2025 Purim reenactment and parade was that Popeye the Sailor Man was created by Jewish cartoonist E. C. Segar. Bret and Mary Silverglate offered up this factoid. They were dressed as Popeye and Olive Oyl, and Bret had previously Googled the spinach-eating sailor. The gathering of nearly 400 Purim revelers in University City on March 14 also included astronauts, Vikings, cowboys and o…
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St. Louis Jewish Light broke the news in on Sunday, March 16, 2025.
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