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Legman was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Emil and Julia Friedman Legman, both of Hungarian / Romanian Jewish descent ; his father was a railroad clerk and butcher.

According to an obituary by his friend Jay Landesman in The Independent of London, in a childhood incident, classmates " wrote the word ' kosher ' in horse-shit juice across his forehead.

" He regarded the event as formative, and he would insist throughout his life that violence and sadism so prominent in American culture resulted directly from the suppression of sex.