Black Mitzvah

CTL-E-6195 · Work · other · 2019

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Combined Graph record U-07392 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6195.

Black Mitzvah is the 2019 Netflix stand-up comedy special by Tiffany Haddish, released on December 3, 2019 — her fortieth birthday, and the day she herself became a bat mitzvah. The Jewish Women's Archive records that the special turns on Haddish discovering her Jewish identity at twenty-seven, after reconnecting with her estranged father, an Eritrean Jew, and learning of the persecution he faced; on the day of release she read from the Torah in a ceremony led by Rabbi Susan Silverman. The Milken Institute's speaker biography likewise identifies the work as her 2019 Netflix comedy special, in which she reflects on her life, her fame, and the heritage she had only come to know as an adult. The recording of the special went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021, as the Recording Academy's own artist record confirms. The Milken biography adds the historical weight of that win: Haddish became the second Black woman ever to win the category, and the first since Whoopi Goldberg won in 1986. The work is filed here as a comedy special — a filmed stand-up performance that also circulates, and won its Grammy, as an album.

The record

• Also known as: Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah

Notes

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Relationships

• Tiffany Haddish — authored by
  Black Mitzvah is Tiffany Haddish's own 2019 Netflix stand-up special: the Recording Academy's artist record lists Black Mitzvah under Tiffany Haddish as Best Comedy Album winner (63rd Grammys, 2021), and the Milken Institute biography calls it 'her 2019 Netflix comedy special.' Haddish is homed at CTL-E-6077 (Person). authored_by runs Work -> Person in schema.json.

Sources

• Recording Academy / GRAMMY.com, Tiffany Haddish artist record (accessed 2026-10-16) — Black Mitzvah — Winner, Best Comedy Album, 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (2021); Haddish totals on the Academy's record: 1 win, 2 nominations, including a 2019 nomination for The Last Black Unicorn — https://www.grammy.com/artists/tiffany-haddish/243279/ (primary source · build store)
• Milken Institute, Tiffany Haddish speaker biography (Global Conference 2022) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Her 2019 Netflix comedy special, Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah, won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album (worded 'Outstanding Comedy Album' in the bio), making Haddish the second Black woman ever to win the category and the first since Whoopi Goldberg in 1986 — https://milkeninstitute.org/events/global-conference-2022/speakers/tiffany-haddish (build store)
• Jewish Women's Archive, 'Tiffany Haddish Becomes a Bat Mitzvah' (accessed 2026-10-16) — On Dec. 3, 2019, Haddish became a bat mitzvah on her 40th birthday; the same day she released her Netflix comedy special Black Mitzvah, about discovering her Jewish identity at 27 after reconnecting with her estranged father, an Eritrean Jew; she read from the Torah in a ceremony led by Rabbi Susan Silverman — http://jwa.org/thisweek/dec/3/2019/tiffany-haddish-becomes-bat-mitzvah (build store)

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