[78-L] Harry James - Jewish?

[Thatcher Graham]

If I recall the custom correctly he is Jewish if his maternal line was 
Jewish. His attending catholic school cant undo that for the groups that 
feel that jews are a race and not just a religion. Do we know his 
mother's maiden name?

-- Thatcher 



Cary Ginell wrote:
> Harry James' parents were named Everette and Maybelle. Harry's middle name was Haag, which was the name of a circus show where James' parents worked; Everette as a bandmaster and Maybelle as a trapeze artist. Nothing is said in Peter Levinson's book about James' heritage, but as a small boy he was enrolled in Catholic school in Beaumont, Texas, so that kind of rules Judaism out...
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> Cary Ginell
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>> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:41:47 +0100
>> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Harry James - Jewish?
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>> David Lennick wrote:
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>>> Helen Forrest was Jewish. Ziggy Elman was Jewish (no kidding!). Benny Goodman was Jewish. I've heard it claimed that Woody Herman was Jewish. Harry James..no way, although he absorbed the Klezmer idiom nicely.
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>>> dl
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>> So did Charlie Shavers!
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