Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’
The seven-time Grammy winner “found out that I was Jewish in my late 20s”
The seven-time Grammy winner “found out that I was Jewish in my late 20s”
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan is hosting 'Bintel: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow' as part of an all-day festival
The episode saw the acclaimed actor tearing up as he learned about his Yiddish-language journalist grandfather
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It should have been a relaxing summer lunch with my maternal first cousins and their spouses, but instead, my mind was racing. I needed to ask a question that had been on my mind for months and I could not wait any longer. Pushing aside my plate, I spoke. “I took an Ancestry DNA test…
After my father – a Holocaust survivor — passed away in 1991 I found an old leather valise he had brought with him from Germany. Inside were hundreds of still photographs he had taken right after liberation with a Leica IIIc. They included scenes around Germany; in particular, Lubeck, where I was born in 1949….
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