Re: Billy Joel -- Jewish Music?

[Sofia V. Shneider <soph...>]

Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
"Who doesn't believe that not all of writers are Jewish, let's look -
Pushkinzon, Lermontovich, also Tolstoy is Lyova..."
(Yuri Rabinovich from Vladivostok, Russia)
Sophia,
Russia 

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