My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.
As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
My family's from Eastern Europe.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.