Luca Josef Bercovici was born in New York on the Feb. 22, 1957. He has quite mixed origins: Romanian gypsy Jew on his father's side and Italian on his mother's side. His great-great-grandfather, in order to escape conscription into the Romanian army, bought falsified letters of transit under the name of Halpern, trying to get the family out of Romania, but he got caught. A little while later he tried again and bought letters of transit under the name of Bercovici, and this time he made it ou ...[Read Story]