Word: russian-jewish
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Born in the central Russian town of Engels, Schnittke, half Jewish and half German, had the misfortune to belong to two of the old Soviet Union's least favorite ethnic groups. But he was luckier than most; his father, a journalist of Russian-Jewish extraction who was born in Germany, was posted to Vienna in the mid-1940s. The family moved to Moscow in 1948, where the bilingual Alfred began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory...
Perelman's parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who raised poultry on a small Rhode Island farm. In one of many psychobiographical pole vaults, Herrmann says, "As soon as he could afford it, he began buying only the most expensive custom-made English clothes. They were so beautifully tailored they gave the impression their wearer had never suffered poverty, hardship and the terrible smell of thousands of chickens dying." That Perelman's similarly attired literary colleagues were not all fleeing from the aroma of guano is irrelevant; once the feather complex has been formulated, all facts must bend...
...served a year in jail starting in 1965 for attempted burglary and three years, beginning in 1969, for a hijacking from an airport warehouse. He was not around much for the early years of his five children by his wife Victoria, the daughter of an Italian builder and a Russian-Jewish mother...
...Ministers aside, the novel is patterned on the life and times of Herman Wouk, 69, the author of The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Wouk and Goodkind were born in the same year in The Bronx. Both are sons of laundry owners. Both share Russian-Jewish ancestry and religious orthodoxy. Both author and character wrote plays and humor at Columbia University and had early careers recycling old gags for radio...
Four years before the turn of the century (and two years before George), Ira was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side of middle-class Russian-Jewish parents. In 1920 George, who had already contributed songs to shows, asked his brother for some lyrics, and the Gershwin partnership was born, although Ira at first used the pseudonym Arthur Francis. In their first Broadway show, Lady, Be Good (1924), they began a fruitful collaboration with Fred Astaire, who was starring with his sister Adele. Other stars soon recognized a good thing. Gertrude Lawrence sang Someone to Watch over...