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His paternal grandfather, novelist Jose Yglesias, was of Cuban and Spanish Galician descent, while his paternal grandmother, novelist Helen Yglesias (née Bassine) was the daughter of Yiddish-speaking immigrants from the Russian-controlled portion of Poland.
28 paź 2009 · He told me that he certainly was not anti-Zionist at all and that he, in fact, considered himself a Zionist, "a believer in the Jewish state in the Jewish national home." That's as clear a ...
15 mar 2019 · President Trump helped kick off the week with a tweet alleging that “Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party” and citing a television appearance by a woman named Elizabeth Pipko from a...
4 mar 2013 · At any rate, I believe my family on my mother’s side largely hails (like many American Jewish families) from what’s currently eastern Poland (but was Russia at the time) and didn’t...
Lots of Jewish relatives of mine who probably wouldn't approve of AIPAC's efforts to remove legislative language constraining George W. Bush from attacking Iran certainly do approve of "the...
25 gru 2007 · As everyone knows, American Jews celebrate Christmas with a meal composed of the North American Ashkenazi Diaspora's traditional cuisine, Chinese-American food. Thus, Jeff Weintraub directs our...
30 gru 2019 · Stephens instead sketches a cultural explanation for Jewish genius, arguing that “there is a religious tradition that, unlike some others, asks the believer not only to observe and obey but...
