<prompt> Bheka isigaba esingezansi bese uphendula umbuzo emva kwalokho ngolimi olufanayo nesigaba: U-Allen wazalwa u-Allan Stewart Konigsberg eBrooklyn edolobheni laseNew York. Yena nodadewabo, uLetty b. 1943, bakhulela eMidwood, eBrooklyn. Uyindodana kaNettie née Cherry; November 8, 1906 January 27, 2002, umgcini wezincwadi esitolo somndeni wakhe, noMartin Konigsberg December 25, 1900 January 8, 2001, umqophi wamatshe ayigugu kanye nomphathi. Umkhaya wakubo wawungamaJuda, futhi ugogo nomkhulu wakhe bathuthela e-US besuka eRussia nase-Austria futhi babekhuluma isiYiddish, isiHeberu nesiJalimane. Bobabili abazali baka-Allen bazalwa futhi bakhulela e-Lower East Side yaseManhattan. Ubuntwana bakhe abuzange bujabule kakhulu; abazali bakhe babengavumelani, futhi wayenobudlelwano obunzima nonina onzima, onomoya. U-Allen wayekhuluma isiJalimane kancane lapho esemncane. Kamuva wayevame ukwenza ihlaya ngokuthi lapho esemncane wayevame ukuthunyelwa emakamu ehlobo ahlanganisa izinkolo. Ngesikhathi efunda esikoleni samaHeberu iminyaka eyisishiyagalombili, waya e-Public School 99 manje eyi-Isaac Asimov School for Science and Literature naseMidwood High School, lapho aphothula khona ngo-1953. Ngokungafani nomlingiswa wakhe wamahlaya, wayenesithakazelo esikhulu ebhola le-baseball kunasesikoleni futhi izingalo zakhe ezinamandla zaqinisekisa ukuthi wayengowokuqala ukukhethwa eqenjini. Wayehlaba umxhwele abafundi ngekhono lakhe elingavamile lamakhadi namasu omlingo. Ukuze athole imali, wayebhalela u-agent uDavid O. Alber amahlaya noma ama-gags, ayewathengisela izintatheli zamaphephandaba. Lapho eneminyaka engu - 17 ubudala washintsha igama lakhe ngokomthetho laba ngu - Heywood Allen futhi kamuva waqala ukuzibiza ngo - Woody Allen. Ngokuka-Allen, ihlaya lakhe lokuqala elanyatheliswa lalifundeka kanje: UWoody Allen uthi wadla endaweni yokudlela eyayinezindleko ze-O.P.S. ezingaphezu kwemiholo yabantu. Wayethola imali engaphezu kwaleyo abazali bakhe bobabili ababeyihola behlangene. Ngemuva kwesikole esiphakeme, waya eNyuvesi yaseNew York, wafunda ukuxhumana namafilimu ngo-1953, ngaphambi kokuyeka ngemuva kokwehluleka izifundo ze- Motion Picture Production. Wafunda amafilimu eCity College of New York ngo-1954 kodwa washiya ngaphambi kokuphela kwesemester yokuqala. Wayezifundisa yena kunokuba afunde ekilasini. Wafundisa eThe New School futhi wafunda nothisha wokubhala uLajos... Umbuzo: Wayeneminyaka emingaki uWoody Allen lapho ethatha igama lakhe?  <response>: iminyaka engu-17 