The amazingly brave chutzpa of a 1930s gay, Jewish bullfighter When not unfurling his cape, American matador Sidney Franklin, aka ‘El Torero de la Torah,’ hobnobbed with Ernest Hemingway, who ...

In the famous bullfighting rings of Spain, Sidney Franklin was renowned as “El Torero de la Torah,” or the “Bullfighter of the Torah.” Mr. Franklin, who died in 1976 when he was 72, was ...

PROFILE OF Sidney Franklin, the bullfighter. History of bullfighting, early masters of the bullring, Guerrita, Joselito, Belmonte, Gaona and Manolete. Important Mexican & Spanish professionals ...