Re: Billy Joel -- Jewish Music?

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

The following is from Jewhoo, a fun website for those of us who like to play the
guessing game.

    "billy joel: l.i. raised singer and songwriter who does not need a listing
of his credits. he is unquestionably jewish and has declared in interviews that
"the jews are my people". his father's family was one of the most prominent
jewish families in nuremburg, germany. they managed to escape with just their
lives, their wealth stolen from them. his father moved to ny and later married
joel's mother, an amer. (jewish) woman. he later abandoned his family & joel's
working class sensibility stems from the terrible position his mother was left
in."


HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> Well, he's in "Great Jews in Music," but two of his best songs imply that he
> went to Catholic school.  -Hankus
>

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